Vie, mort et résurrection de l'histoire du Liban, ou les vicissitudes du phénix

Candice Raymond

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2013, vol. n° 216, issue 4, 71-87

Abstract: This article considers the specific production conditions and modalities of an official history, understood as a historiography produced and promoted by the state apparatus, in modern Lebanon. It recounts the history of ?the history of Lebanon? as a historical discourse consubstantial with the formation of the state, whose very relevance of the subject was initially disputed and whose main statements have been challenged. It then describes the processes by which this historiography has been reconfigured so as to form at the end of the civil war the basis of a minimum and default national history, which reflects, however, an unprecedented narrowing of positions within Lebanese society and a more widely shared desire for consensus despite the persistence of sectarian divides.

Keywords: Lebanon; historiography; official history; national history; lebanonism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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