Beyond the War? The Lebanese Postmemory Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7212489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Larkin (0000-0002-6670-4209, Institute of Religious Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 615-635 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002074381000084x |
| OpenAlex | W1980995115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article seeks to address how Lebanese youth are dealing with the legacy of civil war (1975–90), given the national backdrop of official silence, persisting injustice, and competing memory discourses. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, it explores the memory of a generation of Lebanese who have grown up dominated not by traumatic events but by narrative accounts of events that preceded their birth. This residual form of memory carries and connects with the pain of others, suffusing temporal frames and liminal positions. The article examines how postmemory is mediated and transformed through the mnemonic lenses of visual landscapes and oral narratives. Consideration is given to the dynamic production of “memoryscapes”—memories of violence localized in particular sites—and to narrative constructions of the past implicated in the ongoing search for meaning, historical truth, and identity. This article seeks to challenge pervasive notions of Lebanese postwar amnesia and of a generational detachment from the residual effects and future implications of war recollections
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Identity (music · Injustice · Liminality · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Mnemonic · Narrative · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
The Absence of Father/Mother and Postmemory in Rawi Hage’s Carnival (2012)
Reimagining Trauma
Neighborhood Planning for a Divided City
Afterword
Speaking in the Silence
Introduction
How Generations Remember
Ghostly ruins
Questioning the canon
Remaking Beirut
Under the Lebanese flag”
Memory in Family
The Frontiers of Beirut
Making sense of Lebanon’s approach to the (non-)securitisation of Syrian refugees
Memory Studies
Neither secular nor sectarian
Diasporic Memoir and Translocal Histories of War and Gendered Violence
Between a Refuge and a Battleground
Reverberations and post-war trauma
Bleeding from One Generation to the Next
Memory and war
Lives, laws, and language
Time, Narrative and History
The Sneer of Memory
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
War and Memory in Lebanon
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation
Culture of Sectarianism
The breakdown of the state in Lebanon
Don't Mention the War?” The Politics of Remembrance and Forgetfulness in Postwar Lebanon
Coexistence in wartime Lebanon
People and their Pasts
Memory and Conflict in Lebanon
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation
Getting to Arab Democracy
Reconstructing space, re-creating memory
Regarding the pain of others
The Generation of Postmemory
We are the border
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |