Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War: Momentum, Mediation, and Mediatization
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum—blogging, video-making, and online comics—and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how literature, which requires time for its “contents” to be distilled into a form removed from emotional immediacy, succeed not only in reflecting it but also in reflectingon itthrough various fictional(izing) prisms. I do so by comparing the methodologies adopted by Nada Awar Jarrar'sA Good Landand Abbas El-Zein'sLeave to Remain: A Memoir, both published in 2009, and by arguing that they share a sense of guilt and hence exhibit an ethical exigency by incorporating particular discourses to mediate and mediatize this war as crisis: the social/humanitarian inA Good Landand the visual/photographic inLeave to Remain.
Source: Arab Studies Quarterly
Author: Syrine Hout
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2609964040