Dancing in Damascus :creativity, resilience, and the Syrian revolution

• 作者: Cooke, Miriam,
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• 稽核項: xvi, 135 pages :illustrations, map ;24 cm.
• 標題: Arts , Syria History -- Civil War, 2011- , Intellectual life , Arabic literature , History and criticism. , Syria Intellectual life -- 21st century. , Arts Political aspects -- Syria. , Civilization , Dissenters, Artistic , Dissenters, Artistic Syria. , Syria , Arabic literature Syria -- History and criticism. , Political aspects , Syria Civilization -- 21st century. , History
• ISBN: 1138692174 , 9781138692176
• ISBN: 9781315532936
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index. Cracking the wall of fear -- Insulting Bashar -- Choreographing trauma -- Curating the revolution -- Creating on the edge.
• 摘要: "On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million are internally displaced and over four million are wandering the world, many on foot or in leaky boats. Countless numbers have been disappeared. These shocking statistics and the unstoppable violence notwithstanding, the revolution goes on. The story of the attempted crushing of the revolution is known. Less well covered has been the role of artists and intellectuals in representing to the world and to their people the resilience of revolutionary resistance and defiance. How is it possible that artists, filmmakers and writers have not been cowed into numbed silence but are becoming more and more creative? How can we make sense of their insistence that despite the apocalypse engulfing the country their revolution is ongoing and that their works participate in its persistence? With smartphones, pens, voices and brushes, these artists registered their determination to keep the idea of the revolution alive. Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Syrian revolution and the activists' creative responses to physical and emotional violence."--Publisher's description
• 系統號: 005186279
• 資料類型: 圖書
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