Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives

by Elise Salem

Through an examination of Lebanese literary narratives and musical theater, Constructing Lebanon offers a vehicle for understanding Lebanon's cultural and political evolution as a nation over the last century. It redresses the lack of scholarship on the symbiotic relationship between nation and culture, especially in Arab studies, by presenting both descriptive and prescriptive models of how a nation can be read through literary productions. Elise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813025966
• ISBN13: 9780813025964
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.2"