The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel

Introduction PART I: THE LEBANESE LITERARY FIELD1. Newspapers, Prizes and Politics: The Field's Institutions and the Global and Regional Context2. What Makes a Good Novel in Lebanon? The Values of the FieldPART II: "WE'RE ALL IN THE DARK" - THE FIRST GENERATION OF (POST-) WAR AUTHORS3. The Civil War Novel and the Break with Tradition4. Revolutionaries Turned Writers: A Secular Left-Wing Habitus5. Destruction and Deconstruction: Forms of Literary RememberingPART III: GHOSTS IN THE ARCHIVE - THE SECOND GENERATION OF POSTWAR AUTHORS6. The Civil War Novel as Gateway to the Literary Field7. Humanist Commitment: A New Habitus8. Archive, Trauma and Reconstruction: New Forms of Literary RememberingConclusion: Whose Truth, Whose Power?Appendix A: List of Authors Appendix B: List of Novels