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Felix Lang

 

 

 

Short CV

Felix Lang is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg and coordinator of the "Figures of Thought | Turning Points" research group (DFG-Leibniz). He studied Arabic and Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews from 2005 to 2009, before writing his M.A. dissertation on the impact of the commodification of the music of the Sufi Gnaoua brotherhood on the soundscape of the Moroccan town of Essaouira.

In 2014 he completed a PhD in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Marburg with a thesis entitled "Imperative to Remember? The Lebanese Literary Field and the Post-Civil War Novel". He is currently working on a postdoc project on the position of Arab writers in the European literary field.

 

 

Publications

  • (2015 forthcoming) "The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital." Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-lebanese-postcivil-war-novel-felix-lang/?isb=9781137559883
  • (2015 forthcoming) "Redeemed from Politics: Notions of Literary Legitimacy in the Lebanese Literary Field". In: Pannewick, Friederike / Khalil, Georges (eds.): "Commitment and Beyond. Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s", Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  • (2014) "Ghosts in The Archive—Lebanon’s Second-Generation Post-War Novelists and The Limits of Reconstruction" in Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: Sites, vol.18 (5).
  • (2013) Essay on the Lebanese novelist Iman Humaidan. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. München: Ed. Text + Kritik. 90. Nachlieferung.

 

 

Research interest

  • anthropology of literature
  • contemporary Arabic literature
  • memory, trauma, transitional justice and literature
  • Syria, Lebanon