Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut A City's Suspended Now /

• Main Author: Naeff, Judith (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnology-Middle East .; Fine arts.; Peace.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Fine Arts.; Conflict Studies.

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 witne...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Beirut's Suspended Now
• 3. The Disposable City
• 4. Surface City
• 5. Excavation and Mourning Conclusion: Ethics in the Precarious City (The Case of You Stink)
• 6. Conclusion.