Abstract
Lebanese writers in the English language represent their mountains in an ambivalent manner: they use western aesthetic concepts (sublime, picturesque) while setting their representation in an Eastern context of ideological reappropriation of their land, focusing on its cultural and human occupation with a strong opposition between mountain and city dwellers. The mountain is seen as an ambivalent paradise, both a symbol of innocence and of lawlessness. This series of oppositions is a metaphor for the in-betweennness of these authors
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