Histoire officielle et mémoires en conflit dans le Sud du Mont-Liban : les affrontements druzo-chrétiens du xixe siècle
The Lebanese space is characterized by the absence of a national collective memory, in favor of multiple social memories ported by the various sectarian religious groups coexisting on Lebanese soil. These multiple memories developed with time, fed by the relationships (conflicting or friendly) that...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/8454 |
| Summary: | The Lebanese space is characterized by the absence of a national collective memory, in favor of multiple social memories ported by the various sectarian religious groups coexisting on Lebanese soil. These multiple memories developed with time, fed by the relationships (conflicting or friendly) that these groups maintained between them. Such memories compete with each other, and with another memory that was constructed, in the early twentieth century, by proponents of coexistence. The narrative that they elaborated was raised to the rank of official history, in a vain attempt to promote a unified vision of history. Memories built around the Druze-Christian confrontations in the nineteenth century (1840-1860) are particularly illustrative of this discordance. The fact that this essential moment in the founding of Modern Lebanon is the result of a bloody conflict is almost ignored in the official history. A survey of Christian and Druze sectarian memories for that period shows how these conflicting memories undermine the official history, thus reporting a failure of historians to impose a censored narrative as the basis for a shared national history. |
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| ISSN: | 0997-1327 2105-2271 |