| 书目名称 | Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut | | 副标题 | A City‘s Suspended N | | 编辑 | Judith Naeff | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Uniquely straddles visual culture studies, cultural geography, memory studies, literary studies, Middle Eastern studies and urban studies.Challenges the more common approach of trauma studies to under | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: “the suspended now”. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that last decades have witnessed a gradual shift in understanding this temporality from being a transitional phase to a more durable experience of precariousness. The theoretically rich analyses take us on a journey through Beirut’s real and imagined geographies, from garbage dumps to real estate advertisements, and from subterranean spaces to martyr’s posters. For scholars of cultural analysis, urban studies, cultural geography and critical theory, the case of post-1990 Beirut offers a fascinating case of neoliberal urban renewal, which challenges existing theories. For scholars of Lebanon and Beirut, this study complements existing work on post-civil-war Lebanese cultural production rooted in trauma studies by its focus on thecity’s continual exposure to violence.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Beirut; post-civil-war; shared experience; advertisement; visual arts; cinema; literature; postcolonial | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65933-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-88134-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-65933-6 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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