UID:
almafu_9959245474702883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-7486-7656-2
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1-283-87123-8
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0-7486-4343-5
Series Statement:
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Content:
This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for study have been produced in, and are substantially about, life in exile. They therefore deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) but with one of its crucial and long-standing by-products: expatriation. Syrine Hout shows how these texts characterise a distinctly new literary and cultural trend and have founded an Anglophone Lebanese diasporic literature. The authors discussed in the book are Rabih Alameddine, Tony Hanania, Rawi Hage, Nada Awar Jarrar, Patricia Sarrafian Ward and Nathalie Abi-Ezzi. In her exploration of their writings Hout teases out the different meanings and reformulations of home, be it Lebanon as a nation, a house, a host country, an irretrievable pre-war childhood, a state of in-between dwelling, a portable state of mind, and/or a utopian ideal.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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pt. I. Homesickness and sickness of home -- pt. II. Trauma narratives : the scars of war -- pt. III. Playing with fire at home and abroad -- pt. IV. Exile versus repatriation.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-4342-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9780748643431
