Abstract
The present essay intends to explore some short stories by Mai Ghoussoub, from the collection Leaving Beirut (2007) which focus on the city of Beirut at the time of the civil war in the ‘70s and up to the ‘90s. Her works will be discussed taking into consideration ‘psychogeography’, and the ‘geopolitics of emotions’ as theoretical frameworks. The difficulty to reconcile one-self to one’s nation and one’s people, after a war, is particularly relevant here. In her stories, Mai Ghoussoub depicts the normality of a time of peace and the abrupt metamorphosis forced onto people by war, almost overnight. Her narratives confront, amongst other themes, exile, displacement and a vision of the motherland from abroad, since numerous intellectuals and artists migrated during or right after the war. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-24 Bibliography Boulad, Antoine. 2004. Place des Martyrs. Malu Halasa & Roseanne Saad Khalaf eds. Transit Beirut. New Writing and Images . London: Saqi, 30-35. Coverley, Merlin. 2010. Psychogeography . Harpenden: Pocket Essentials. Debord, Guy. 1981. Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography. Ken Knabb ed. Situationist International Anthology . Berkeley (CA): Bureau of Public Secrets. Ghoussoub, Mai. 2007 [1998]. Leaving Beirut . London: Saqi. Kassir, Samir. 2003. Histoire of Beyrouth . Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard. Traduzione di Mario Marchetti [2009. Beirut. Storia di una citta . Torino: Einaudi]. Khalaf, Roseanne Saad. 2004. Living Between Worlds. Malu Halasa & Roseanne Saad Khalaf eds. Transit Beirut. New Writing and Images . London: Saqi, 58-67. Khalaf, Samir. 2006. Heart of Beirut . London: Saqi. Moisi, Dominique. 2009. The Geopolitics of Emotion . London: Doubleday Books. Saghie, Hazim. 2004. Crossings: Beirut in the Eighties. Malu Halasa & Roseanne Saad Khalaf ed. Transit Beirut. New Writing and Images . London: Saqi, 110-121. Shakespeare, William. 1995 [1603-1608]. Antony and Cleopatra. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor eds. The Complete Works . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1026. WEBLIOGRAPHY Moisi, Dominique: Humiliation, Hope & Fear. 2009. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=grC5XSzSCFM (accessed 18.07.2015). Moisi, Dominique. 2010. “Lux” – Dominique Moisi 3 – on Geopolitics of emotions, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKypIHG9HU (accessed 18.07.2015). Villeneuve, Denis. 2010 . Incendies . With Mustafa Kamel, Hussein Sami, Remy Girard & Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin. Canada-France, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/ (accessed 18.07.2015).
Highlights
: Questo saggio intende esplorare prose brevi di Mai Ghoussoub dalla raccolta Leaving Beirut (2007) che trattano della città di Beirut al tempo della guerra civile, negli anni settanta e fino al novanta
The two short stories and the short prose pieces taken into consideration belong to the collection by Mai Ghoussoub, Leaving Beirut (1998) about the Lebanese civil war that lasted fifteen years, from 1975 to 1990
Psychogeography which examines the relationship between the city and the behaviour of its inhabitants and Dominique Moïsi’s view of a ‘negative culture of humiliation’ appear relevant for the present study
Summary
: Questo saggio intende esplorare prose brevi di Mai Ghoussoub dalla raccolta Leaving Beirut (2007) che trattano della città di Beirut al tempo della guerra civile, negli anni settanta e fino al novanta. The two short stories and the short prose pieces taken into consideration belong to the collection by Mai Ghoussoub, Leaving Beirut (1998) about the Lebanese civil war that lasted fifteen years, from 1975 to 1990.
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