Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman Pdf Reader
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Synopsis Beirut Nightmares is set at the height of the Lebanese Civil War. The narrator, trapped in her flat for two weeks by street battles and sniper fire, writes a series of vignettes peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, some drawn from the amazing waking world and others living only in the sleeping minds of those suffering in the conflict. Product Identifiers ISBN-65X ISBN-380653 eBay Product ID (ePID) 102955377 Key Details Author Ghada Samman Number Of Pages 208 pages Format Paperback Publication Date 1998-09-01 Language English Publisher Quartet Books, Limited Publication Year 19980000 Additional Details Copyright Date 1997 Original Language Arabic Dimensions Weight 9.2 Oz Height 1 In. Target Audience Group Trade Classification Method LCCN 98-159982 LC Classification Number PJ7862.A584K313 1997 Dewey Decimal 892.7/36 Dewey Edition 21 Contributors Edited by Quartet of Editors Translated by Nancy N.
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Ghada Samman is a Syrian writer who lived in Beirut. Her novel Beirut Nightmares tells the story of a woman who is holed up in her house at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war in 1975. Her only companions are her neighbors: an old man and his son, as well as their male servant.
The fifteen-year war in Lebanon was over in 1990, and the Lebanese are still trying to remember it. They are trying to gather together the shards of that war by patching together days and dates. But in their focus on time they have overlooked the crucial role of space. According to Robert T.
(2011, 8), “The ways in which we are situated in space determine the nature and quality of our existence in the world.” The French professor Bertrand Westphal (2011, ix), the father of geocriticism, reminds us: “For a long period, time seems to have been the main coordinate of human inscription into the world. Space only a rough container.” Indeed, in the case of the Lebanese war, space was not merely a rough container but a protagonist.
The Lebanese conflict, like any civil war, has redefined not only the notions of front line and war space but also the way the population, especially women, deals with intimacy in the patriarchal Lebanese society. When the war broke out in 1975, many women scattered across Beirut started to write about their own experiences. In the late 1980s the American professor miriam cooke (1996 [1987]) gave them a name, the Beirut Decentrists, thus highlighting their physical dispersal in the city. Cooke (1987, 4) explained that these women were decentered in a more intellectual way, as they “wrote in the capital but were tangential to its literary tradition.” But we must go beyond the dualistic logic of center-periphery to understand the notion of space in the Beirut Decentrists’ texts. This essay explores the notion of third space as developed by Homi K. Bhabha (1994), Edward W.
Soja (1996), and Westphal (2007). Using tools of geocriticism, we will examine how the Beirut Decentrists’ texts engage with an urban space torn by war, allowing us to better understand the many layers underlying a topography of violence.