Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction

Home Matters in the Diaspora

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19918151
AutoresSyrine Hout (American University of Beirut, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Fecha de publicación2012-09-12
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPostwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9780748643431
OpenAlexW2500115258
Open LibraryOL37159017M
ISBN9780748643431
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

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 Jarra, Patricia Sarrafian Ward and Nathalie Ab-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

Art · Diaspora · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society