UID:
almafu_9959677525202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (206 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-03564-2
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9786613035646
,
0-8223-9056-6
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Inhalt:
An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Culture is humanity's highest need" / As if . . . / Slogans, slogans everywhere -- Freedom and democracy -- Our literature does not leave the country / Nadia al-Ghazzi / Colette al-Khuri -- No such thing as women's literature / Ulfat Idilbi / Salons and Mallahat al-Khani / Nadia Khust and the Nadwa -- Commissioned criticism / Culture after the Fall of the Wall / Commissioned criticism / The fantasy of choice -- Dissident performances / Performing dissidence / The ghoul / -- Historical miniatures -- Filming dreams / The extras / Dreaming features / Documenting dreams -- Lighten your step / Ibrahim Samuil / Waiting / Ghassan al-Jaba'i / Lessons from a rogue state -- Leaving Damascus -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-4016-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-4035-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780822390565
