The Lebanese Post-civil-war Novel

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Felix Lang (Philipps-Universität - Marburg)

Ed. by Rita Sakr, Maynooth University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Joseph Farag (University of Minnesota), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Domains

Movements, styles and periods (literature)

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1975- c.

Places

Lebanon (Location; Involved)

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Between 1975 and 1990, Lebanon was the theatre for a series of armed conflicts that pitted against each other a host of local, regional, and global actors in various constellations. Palestinian and Lebanese left-wing and Maronite Christian militias, the armies of Syria, Israel, US marines and Hizbullah all had their role to play. As large-scale violence subsided after the Ṭāʾif agreement (1989), the Lebanese were left with a divided, and in many places destroyed, capital, hundreds of thousands of casualties and disappeared individuals, and a novelistic tradition of writing about the war that is now often regarded as the beginning of a properly Lebanese literature. Today, the authors who began writing about the conflict in the late 1970s and 1980s are ranked among the most highly…

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Citation: Lang, Felix. "The Lebanese Post-civil-war Novel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 April 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19502, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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