Social Life of Memory

Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-04
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt452 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Antal sidor246
Upplaga17001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319666211

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Norman Saadi Nikro has an Australian-Lebanese background, and holds a PhD (1998) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Habilitation degree (2013) from the University of Potsdam, Germany. His book The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon came out in 2012.Sonja Hegasy is the Vice Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. She studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and at Columbia University in New York, USA. In 1996 she received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, Germany with a thesis on State and Civil Society in Morocco (in German).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Memory between Lieu and Milieu.- Chapter 2. A Life of Waiting: Political Violence, Personal Memory, and Enforced Disappearance in Morocco.- Chapter 3. The Civil War's Ghosts: Events of Memory Seen through Lebanese Cinema.- Chapter 4. Transforming Memories: Media and Historiography in the Aftermath of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission.- Chapter 5. Testimony and Journalism: Moroccan Prison Narratives.- Chapter 6. Sites of Memory in Lebanon: The Hariri Mosque in Martyrs Square.- Chapter 7. Ressouvenirs in Dialogue: University Students Tell Their War Stories.- Chapter 8. ReMemory in an Intergenerational Register: Social and Ethical Life of Testimony.- Chapter 9. Memory as Protest: Mediating Memories of Violence and the Bread Riots in the Rif.