The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism : Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (Hardcover)

Preface Gilbert Achcar Introduction Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr Part 1: Representing the Siege  1. ‘War is surrealism without art’: Representing the Unrepresentable in Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness, Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game, and Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation Rita Sakr 2. Writing Beirut c.1982: James Buchan, Robert Fisk, and Charles Glass Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean 3. ‘Besiege Your Siege!’: Mahmoud Darwish, Representation, and the Siege of Beirut Patrick Williams 4. ‘Looking the Beast in the Eye’: Screening Trauma in Waltz With Bashir and Lebanon Anna Ball 5. Sonallah Ibrahim on the Event(s) of Beirut Ziad Elmarsafy 6. A Question of Faith in Humanity: Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments and Other Beirut Fragments Caroline Rooney 7. Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity: Compromise Formations of Survival in the Novels of Rawi Hage and Mischa Hiller Julia Borossa 8. Contrapuntal Beauty and the Betrayal of Representation: Jean Genet after Shatila Filippo Menozzi 9. Jawdat R. Haydar and William Wordsworth: London under Siege, 1982 May Maalouf Part 2: Remembering and Reporting the Siege 10. Reporting Sabra and Shatila Tim Llewellyn 11. Recording Memory: The Palestinian Experience Ghada Karmi 12. Excerpt from Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir Jean Said Makdisi 13. Interview with Robert Fisk 14. Interview with Mischa Hiller 15. Interview with Mai Masri 16. Sabra-Shatila Commemorative Mural Project Susan R. Greene