A lover's discourse : fictions
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1003322550-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Majzoub, Raafat, S.M. (Raafat Mohamad Chamseddine) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor(s)
Renée Green.
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis sets a landscape to discuss intimacy as a political tool, using fiction as a methodology to create potency in the Arab world. Its concern with critique is on the actionable level. This document discusses projects that critique realities in Lebanon and the Arab World by proposing (1) that these realities are in fact fictions (2) that can be contested by creating new fictions through cultural practice. The arguments, challenges and defenses happen in public through observations and readings. The corpus of this thesis is the manuscript of a novel written between 2012 and 2015, "The Perfumed Garden: An Autobiography of Another Arab World," and the methodology of writing it.
Description
Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. "June 2017."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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