A surfeit of victims: a time after time

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dc.contributor.authorSadek, Walid
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Fine Arts & Art History
dc.contributor.facultyFaculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
dc.contributor.institutionAmerican University of Beirut
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T11:24:03Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T11:24:03Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis essay argues that the questions born of the conditions that marked the post-war period in Lebanon are folded over and replaced by another set of conditions of which neo-victimhood is most dominant. The time of the post war can be said to be over and now is followed by a time after time in which the figure of the neo-victim rehearses a monologue of victimisation allegedly beholden to the promise of a future liberated from all that is unfinished in the past. The figure of the neo-victim contaminates the historical anger of the unreconciled victim and further shuts down historical accountability as history becomes the horror of a history en abyme. Looking at documentaries, films and ex-combatant memoirs, this essay attempts to give form to this shift from post-war to a time after time. © 2019, © 2019 Council for British Research in the Levant.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2019.1663039
dc.identifier.eid2-s2.0-85084966118
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10938/25899
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofContemporary Levant
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAmnesty law
dc.subjectArchitectonic memory
dc.subjectAssaad chaftari
dc.subjectFetish
dc.subjectHistory en abyme
dc.subjectLebanese civil-war
dc.subjectNeo-victim
dc.subjectZiad doueiri
dc.titleA surfeit of victims: a time after time
dc.typeArticle

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