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- Title: Catastrophic Subjectivity: Representing Lebanon's Undead (Essay)
- Author : Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 257 KB
Description
This article engages with several artists and filmmakers working in Lebanon's postwar period and the way they use experimental media in order to envision the experience of social catastrophe. Advancing the idea of a withdrawn subjectivity, likened to a state of "undeath," these projects accentuate the gap between sign and signified in order to mediate the phantoms of war without necessarily rendering them visible. Like vampires, the phantoms of Lebanon's wars bear no reflection and cannot be imaged directly. This article asks if the representation of monstrous specters can elucidate the invisible, unsayable, and unrepresentable under conditions of "official amnesia." **********