Syrine Hout
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104094 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Syrine Hout |
| NOMBRES | Syrine |
| APELLIDO | Hout |
| FIRMA | HOUT S |
| AFILIACIONES | American University of Beirut |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Code-Switching, Homeness, and Identitarian Conflict in Rayyan Al-Shawaf’s When All Else Fails
Dans son roman intitulé When All Else Fails, Rayyan al-Shawaf aborde la notion de « chez-soi » telle qu’elle est vécue par les Arabes dans l’Amérique post-11 Septembre à travers le regard de son personnage Hunayn, un Chaldéen d’Irak. En m’appuyant sur les théories langagières portant sur l’alternance codique et en fondant mon étude sur une approche politique de la question d’identité, j’analyse la valeur ludique qui est faite du multilinguisme qu…
Code-Switching, Homeness, and Identitarian Conflict in Rayyan Al-Shawaf’s When All Else Fails
Reading Multilingual Arab Literatures Globally in the Twenty-First Century
Can contemporary reading methods catch up with the proliferation of and innovation in multilingual Arab literatures in ways that help combat ossified and misleading labels like “the Middle East” and “the Arab world”? The definition of “reader” should be widened to include anyone invested in reading Arab and Arabic texts
Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War
A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum—blogging, video-making, and online comics—and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how literature, which requires time for its “contents” to …
Roy Armes, New Voices in Arab Cinema
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
What is Out There to Resist
This article demonstrates that Philippe Aractingi’s 2007 Under the Bombs —produced in response to the July 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel—is a docudrama in the form of a road(block) movie, whose internal borders are both material and discursive. Under the Bombs presents two sets of opposed attitudes and coping strategies vis-à-vis this war; these are manifest, respectively, in the two cinematic strains which make up the film. Applying Ken Se…
The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel
Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days
In this article, I examine the only entirely fictional film made so far about Israel's July 2006 war on Lebanon: the Lebanese-Iranian film 33 Days (2012). I demonstrate how this cinematic intervention, centered on the real-life Battle of Aita al-Shaab, provides a counter-hegemonic narrative to the mostly Western and largely orientalist views not only of this war but of the history of conflict between two opposed political imaginaries: the Israeli…
Sex and love as routes for border crossing and homing desire in anglophone Lebanese fiction
This article marshals key concepts from studies of diasporic literatures and close readings of two post-civil war anglophone Lebanese novels – Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine and De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage – to explain how sex and love, whether gay or straight, serve as both literary strategies and social/psychological border crossings. To do so, it examines both adolescent sexuality and love relationships in wartime Lebanon and mor…
I, the Divine and The Bullet Collection
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Syrine Hout shows how 11 stylistically diverse texts founded a fully-fledged variant of foreign-language Lebanese transnational literature in the diaspora. The novels studied were written in and are substantially about, life in exile. They deal with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
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 foun…
Cultural hybridity, trauma, and memory in diasporic anglophone Lebanese fiction
This article examines post-war anglophone Lebanese fiction produced in the diaspora since 1998. Focusing on Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) and I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001), Patricia Sarrafian Ward's The Bullet Collection (2003), and Rawi Hage's Cockroach (2008), it underscores the connections between three common features: cultural hybridity or in-betweenness, trauma, and memory. With reference to critical o…
The Last Migration
This article is a comparative study of post‐war anglophone Lebanese novels produced outside of Lebanon. It distinguishes between exilic and diasporic fictions. The former are characterized by the characters' radical sentiments towards the homeland which whether nostalgic or critical are equally debilitating and thus foster a mental condition of exile. By contrast, Jad el Hage's The Last Migration (2002) charts a new path in this corpus by portray…
Critical Encounters
It is tempting...to make these links between events or stages of one's life. Sometimes you get it right, but the consequences we see...generally come from mixed and often very complex origins...There are so many influences on one's work one isn't remotely aware of. Perhaps it is ease that we must never have, always we have to be on tiptoe, to grow a tile towards what we may be; and as soon as we stand comfortably on what feels safe ground, the ve…
Secularism, Satire and Scapegoatism in Chateaubriand’s Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
René de Chateaubriand once wrote: “polemics is my natural bearing ... I always need an adversary, no matter where” (Peltier 68). 1 The problem regarding most critical reflections on this nugget of self-analysis, however, is that these have operated on the acceptance, as fact, of the notion that Chateaubriand’s “adversary” was in actuality the binary legacy of the literature and philosophy of the French Enlightenment. Although Chateaubriand did, o…
Cultural hybridity, trauma, and memory in diasporic anglophone Lebanese fiction
This article examines post-war anglophone Lebanese fiction produced in the diaspora since 1998. Focusing on Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) and I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001), Patricia Sarrafian Ward's The Bullet Collection (2003), and Rawi Hage's Cockroach (2008), it underscores the connections between three common features: cultural hybridity or in-betweenness, trauma, and memory. With reference to critical o…
Secularism, Satire and Scapegoatism in Chateaubriand’s Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
René de Chateaubriand once wrote: “polemics is my natural bearing ... I always need an adversary, no matter where” (Peltier 68). 1 The problem regarding most critical reflections on this nugget of self-analysis, however, is that these have operated on the acceptance, as fact, of the notion that Chateaubriand’s “adversary” was in actuality the binary legacy of the literature and philosophy of the French Enlightenment. Although Chateaubriand did, o…
Critical Encounters
It is tempting...to make these links between events or stages of one's life. Sometimes you get it right, but the consequences we see...generally come from mixed and often very complex origins...There are so many influences on one's work one isn't remotely aware of. Perhaps it is ease that we must never have, always we have to be on tiptoe, to grow a tile towards what we may be; and as soon as we stand comfortably on what feels safe ground, the ve…
The Last Migration
This article is a comparative study of post‐war anglophone Lebanese novels produced outside of Lebanon. It distinguishes between exilic and diasporic fictions. The former are characterized by the characters' radical sentiments towards the homeland which whether nostalgic or critical are equally debilitating and thus foster a mental condition of exile. By contrast, Jad el Hage's The Last Migration (2002) charts a new path in this corpus by portray…
Cultural hybridity, trauma, and memory in diasporic anglophone Lebanese fiction
This article examines post-war anglophone Lebanese fiction produced in the diaspora since 1998. Focusing on Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) and I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001), Patricia Sarrafian Ward's The Bullet Collection (2003), and Rawi Hage's Cockroach (2008), it underscores the connections between three common features: cultural hybridity or in-betweenness, trauma, and memory. With reference to critical o…
I, the Divine and The Bullet Collection
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Syrine Hout shows how 11 stylistically diverse texts founded a fully-fledged variant of foreign-language Lebanese transnational literature in the diaspora. The novels studied were written in and are substantially about, life in exile. They deal with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
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 foun…
What is Out There to Resist
This article demonstrates that Philippe Aractingi’s 2007 Under the Bombs —produced in response to the July 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel—is a docudrama in the form of a road(block) movie, whose internal borders are both material and discursive. Under the Bombs presents two sets of opposed attitudes and coping strategies vis-à-vis this war; these are manifest, respectively, in the two cinematic strains which make up the film. Applying Ken Se…
The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel
Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days
In this article, I examine the only entirely fictional film made so far about Israel's July 2006 war on Lebanon: the Lebanese-Iranian film 33 Days (2012). I demonstrate how this cinematic intervention, centered on the real-life Battle of Aita al-Shaab, provides a counter-hegemonic narrative to the mostly Western and largely orientalist views not only of this war but of the history of conflict between two opposed political imaginaries: the Israeli…
Sex and love as routes for border crossing and homing desire in anglophone Lebanese fiction
This article marshals key concepts from studies of diasporic literatures and close readings of two post-civil war anglophone Lebanese novels – Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine and De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage – to explain how sex and love, whether gay or straight, serve as both literary strategies and social/psychological border crossings. To do so, it examines both adolescent sexuality and love relationships in wartime Lebanon and mor…
Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War
A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum—blogging, video-making, and online comics—and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how literature, which requires time for its “contents” to …
Roy Armes, New Voices in Arab Cinema
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
Reading Multilingual Arab Literatures Globally in the Twenty-First Century
Can contemporary reading methods catch up with the proliferation of and innovation in multilingual Arab literatures in ways that help combat ossified and misleading labels like “the Middle East” and “the Arab world”? The definition of “reader” should be widened to include anyone invested in reading Arab and Arabic texts
Code-Switching, Homeness, and Identitarian Conflict in Rayyan Al-Shawaf’s When All Else Fails
Dans son roman intitulé When All Else Fails, Rayyan al-Shawaf aborde la notion de « chez-soi » telle qu’elle est vécue par les Arabes dans l’Amérique post-11 Septembre à travers le regard de son personnage Hunayn, un Chaldéen d’Irak. En m’appuyant sur les théories langagières portant sur l’alternance codique et en fondant mon étude sur une approche politique de la question d’identité, j’analyse la valeur ludique qui est faite du multilinguisme qu…
Code-Switching, Homeness, and Identitarian Conflict in Rayyan Al-Shawaf’s When All Else Fails
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