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Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance to it. Focusing on contemporary Lebanese fiction, film, and popular culture, this book shows how artists reappropriated the twin legacies of commitment literature and the ancient topos of “standing by the ruins” to form a new “elegiac humanism” during the tumultuous period of 1975 to 2005. It redirects attention to the critical role of culture in conditioning attitudes throughout society and is therefore relevant to other societies facing sectarian extremism.Standing by the Ruins is also a strong intervention in the burgeoning field of World Literature. Elaborating on the great Arabist Hilary Kilpatrick’s crucial insight that ancient Arabic forms and topoi filter into modern literature, the author details how the “standing by the ruins” topos—and the structure of feeling it conditions—has migrated over time. Modern Arabic novels, feature films, and popular culture, far from being simply cultural imports, are hybrid forms deployed to respond to the challenges of contemporary Arab society. As such, they can take their place within a World Literature paradigm: they are cultural products that travel and intervene in the world.

Arabic literature --- Literature and society --- Popular culture --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Lebanon --- Liban --- République libanaise --- Libanon --- Lubnān --- Libanan --- Livan --- Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Levanon --- Líbano --- Livanos --- Grand Lebanon --- Grand Liban --- Lebanese Republic --- Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah --- Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya --- Republic of Lebanon --- لبنان --- جمهورية اللبنانية --- Ліван --- Ліванская Рэспубліка --- Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Ливан --- Република Ливан --- Republika Livan --- Λίβανος --- Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου --- Dēmokratia tou Livanou --- Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah --- 레바논 --- לבנון --- רפובליקה הלבנונית --- Republiḳah ha-Levanonit --- Либан --- Либанска Република --- Libanska Republika --- レバノン --- Rebanon --- レバノン共和国 --- Rebanon Kyōwakoku --- Ливанская Республика --- Республіка Ліван --- Respublika Livan --- Ліванська Республика --- Livansʹka Respublyka --- Levonen --- 黎巴嫩 --- Libanen

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Figure marquante de la littérature arabe contemporaine, le Libanais Rachid El-Daïf a construit un univers littéraire d’une authentique singularité. Ses romans, marqués par la guerre civile (1975-1990), opèrent la douloureuse rupture avec les grandes idéologies et se heurtent à l’effondrement du projet initial de modernité arabe à double référence, au modèle européen et à l’expérience endogène. Faire la part entre ce qui est à prendre à l’Occident et ce qui est à rejeter relève en effet de l’aporie et ne fait qu’attiser la crise des valeurs. Pour décrire cette réalité embourbée dans ses contradictions, El-Daïf emprunte les voies de l’intime, de la sexualité, du sujet diffracté, du récit hallucinatoire, jouant des choix narratifs avec un art consommé. Cet ouvrage collectif explore les aspects distinctifs de cette oeuvre importante et largement traduite : il en interroge les fondements esthétiques, les héritages assumés comme la dimension transculturelle novatrice. Ce faisant, il illustre les tensions, mais aussi les riches potentialités qui travaillent aujourd’hui les cultures arabes.

Ḍaʹīf, Rashīd --- Criticism and interpretation. --- El Daif, Rachid --- Daif, Rachid El --- Al-Daif, Rachid --- Al-Daif, Rashid --- الضعيف، رشيد --- رشيد الضعيف --- ضعيف، رشيد --- Literature (General) --- littérature arabe --- vie intellectuelle --- pays arabes