Michelle Hartman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Hartman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartman |
| SIGNATURE | HARTMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa
Dreams Deferred in Arabic
The poetry of Langston Hughes has traveled extensively into Arabic through translation, both in formal publications and on the internet. This chapter explores a range of these translations, in Arab American contexts in the United States and within the Arab world, focusing in particular on one poem, “Harlem [2].” It examines the use of Hughes as a symbol of Black America, and representative of Black poetry and arts, as well as some of the intricac…
Solidarity in multiple registers
This coauthored article is about building solidarity on Canadian university campuses. We construct a narrative in two registers—one justified left, one justified right—that traces our activism within and beyond the university and how our own solidarity has grown over time and informs our current research collaboration. On the one (left) hand, we describe how we as colleagues, comrades, and friends have come to work together in a shared political …
Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?”
Scholarship in modern Arabic literary studies has treated the literature of the Lebanese Civil War, particularly novels written by women, in some depth. One of the most important texts used in both scholarship and teaching about this war is Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Ḥikāyat Zahrah , translated as The Story of Zahra . This article focuses specifically on the one chapter in the novel narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s uncle in order to ex…
Fictitious Capital
My Tale Is Too Long to Tell”
Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s 2005 memoir of her mother’s extraordinary life, Ḥikāyatī sharḥun yaṭūl (My Tale Is Too Long to Tell), changes significantly in its translation as The Locust and the Bird . In Arabic, Kāmilah narrates her life story through her daughter’s pen, using clever linguistic shifts of tone and register as well as a wicked sense of humor to convey her unconventional choices. It is a very local tale of life in South Lebanon. This article a…
The Journeyby Radwa Ashour
This contribution is a translation of the opening chapter of Radwa Ashour's The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student's American Memoirs [Al-Rihla: Ayyam Talibah Misriyah fi Amrika] and a brief critical introduction to the author and her works. Never before published in English translation, this first chapter shows how The Journey is a memoir deeply engaged in politics, literature, and people's struggles. The work charts Ashour's years studying in t…
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
"Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim that these writers express a Francophile or "colonized" consciousness, this book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political and cultu…
Nazira Zeineddine
Book Review| March 01 2013 Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by miriam cooke Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism, cooke, miriam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010. 137 pages. ISBN 978-1-85168-769-5. Michelle Hartman Michelle Hartman McGill University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 133–136. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.1.133 Views Icon V…
Gender, Genre, and the (Missing) Gazelle
Gender,Genre,and the(Missing) Gazelle: Arab Women Writers and the Politics of Translation Michelle Hartman Little is known of what life is like for contemporary women living in the Middle East. ... Al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged rela tions that necessarily exist in a state that denies women their humanity. —back cover of Women of Sand and Myrrh Women of Sand and Myrrh is an exploration of female consciousness in an alien, oppr…
A Jerusalem Story
From Just Like a River
from Just Like a River Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib (bio) Translated by Michelle Hartman and Maher Barakat The Village The camp was almost empty. It was a Thursday, so there was no one in it except for the few soldiers on guard and a number of others who were on duty for the weekend. Among this second group was Chief Sergeant Yunis. The chief sergeant woke up from his afternoon siesta and washed his face with water from the cistern. He prepared his g…
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
Book Review| March 01 2008 Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, Amiry, Suad. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-375-42379-6. Michelle Hartman Michelle Hartman McGill University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 141–144. https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Writing Arabs and Africa(ns) in America
Two years after naming himself a Black Man as opposed to an American in his 1964 expression of alienation from mainstream, white U.S. society, Muhammad Ali announced, “I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.” In doing so, he powerfully linked his racialized status in the United States to his unwillingness to fight a war against other similarly racialized, marginalized, and disempowered people. He thus embraced a message of Third World solidari…
Short Arabic Plays
Like most of the other anthologies edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ShortArabic Plays is a collection of translated Arabic literary works focusedaround one particular genre. This anthology, part of Jayyusi’s Project forthe Translation of Arabic (PROTA), will bring attention to a dynamic, butunderstudied, genre of Arabic literature. Although it includes short biographies of the editor, contributors,and translators (after a brief glossary of Arabic …
Besotted with the Bright Lights of Imperialism
This article reads symbolism and imagery related to New York City in Yūsuf Idrīs's New York 80, Adūnīs's Qabr min ajl New York, and Radwā 'Āshūr's Al-Rihla, to advance two interrelated arguments about the formulation of a positive, modern Arab subjectivity. Firstly, though all of the texts criticize the United States and set up an opposition between the Arab self and the US other, none of the texts merely inscribes a simplistic self-other dichoto…
The First Boat and the First Oar
Research Article| May 01 2003 "The First Boat and the First Oar": Inventions of Lebanon in the Writings of Michel Chiha Michelle Hartman; Michelle Hartman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Alessandro Olsaretti Alessandro Olsaretti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 36–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-36 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Multiple Identities, Multiple Voices
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, MULTIPLE VOICES:READING ANDREE CHEDID'S LA MAISON SANS RACINES Get access MICHELLE HARTMAN MICHELLE HARTMAN HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 54–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.54 Published: 01 January 2000
Gender, Genre, and the (Missing) Gazelle
Gender,Genre,and the(Missing) Gazelle: Arab Women Writers and the Politics of Translation Michelle Hartman Little is known of what life is like for contemporary women living in the Middle East. ... Al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged rela tions that necessarily exist in a state that denies women their humanity. —back cover of Women of Sand and Myrrh Women of Sand and Myrrh is an exploration of female consciousness in an alien, oppr…
Solidarity in multiple registers
This coauthored article is about building solidarity on Canadian university campuses. We construct a narrative in two registers—one justified left, one justified right—that traces our activism within and beyond the university and how our own solidarity has grown over time and informs our current research collaboration. On the one (left) hand, we describe how we as colleagues, comrades, and friends have come to work together in a shared political …
My Tale Is Too Long to Tell”
Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s 2005 memoir of her mother’s extraordinary life, Ḥikāyatī sharḥun yaṭūl (My Tale Is Too Long to Tell), changes significantly in its translation as The Locust and the Bird . In Arabic, Kāmilah narrates her life story through her daughter’s pen, using clever linguistic shifts of tone and register as well as a wicked sense of humor to convey her unconventional choices. It is a very local tale of life in South Lebanon. This article a…
Multiple Identities, Multiple Voices
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, MULTIPLE VOICES:READING ANDREE CHEDID'S LA MAISON SANS RACINES Get access MICHELLE HARTMAN MICHELLE HARTMAN HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 54–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.54 Published: 01 January 2000
The First Boat and the First Oar
Research Article| May 01 2003 "The First Boat and the First Oar": Inventions of Lebanon in the Writings of Michel Chiha Michelle Hartman; Michelle Hartman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Alessandro Olsaretti Alessandro Olsaretti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 36–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-36 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Short Arabic Plays
Like most of the other anthologies edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ShortArabic Plays is a collection of translated Arabic literary works focusedaround one particular genre. This anthology, part of Jayyusi’s Project forthe Translation of Arabic (PROTA), will bring attention to a dynamic, butunderstudied, genre of Arabic literature. Although it includes short biographies of the editor, contributors,and translators (after a brief glossary of Arabic …
Besotted with the Bright Lights of Imperialism
This article reads symbolism and imagery related to New York City in Yūsuf Idrīs's New York 80, Adūnīs's Qabr min ajl New York, and Radwā 'Āshūr's Al-Rihla, to advance two interrelated arguments about the formulation of a positive, modern Arab subjectivity. Firstly, though all of the texts criticize the United States and set up an opposition between the Arab self and the US other, none of the texts merely inscribes a simplistic self-other dichoto…
Writing Arabs and Africa(ns) in America
Two years after naming himself a Black Man as opposed to an American in his 1964 expression of alienation from mainstream, white U.S. society, Muhammad Ali announced, “I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.” In doing so, he powerfully linked his racialized status in the United States to his unwillingness to fight a war against other similarly racialized, marginalized, and disempowered people. He thus embraced a message of Third World solidari…
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
Book Review| March 01 2008 Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, Amiry, Suad. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-375-42379-6. Michelle Hartman Michelle Hartman McGill University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 141–144. https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
From Just Like a River
from Just Like a River Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib (bio) Translated by Michelle Hartman and Maher Barakat The Village The camp was almost empty. It was a Thursday, so there was no one in it except for the few soldiers on guard and a number of others who were on duty for the weekend. Among this second group was Chief Sergeant Yunis. The chief sergeant woke up from his afternoon siesta and washed his face with water from the cistern. He prepared his g…
A Jerusalem Story
Gender, Genre, and the (Missing) Gazelle
Gender,Genre,and the(Missing) Gazelle: Arab Women Writers and the Politics of Translation Michelle Hartman Little is known of what life is like for contemporary women living in the Middle East. ... Al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged rela tions that necessarily exist in a state that denies women their humanity. —back cover of Women of Sand and Myrrh Women of Sand and Myrrh is an exploration of female consciousness in an alien, oppr…
Nazira Zeineddine
Book Review| March 01 2013 Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by miriam cooke Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism, cooke, miriam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010. 137 pages. ISBN 978-1-85168-769-5. Michelle Hartman Michelle Hartman McGill University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 133–136. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.1.133 Views Icon V…
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
"Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim that these writers express a Francophile or "colonized" consciousness, this book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political and cultu…
My Tale Is Too Long to Tell”
Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s 2005 memoir of her mother’s extraordinary life, Ḥikāyatī sharḥun yaṭūl (My Tale Is Too Long to Tell), changes significantly in its translation as The Locust and the Bird . In Arabic, Kāmilah narrates her life story through her daughter’s pen, using clever linguistic shifts of tone and register as well as a wicked sense of humor to convey her unconventional choices. It is a very local tale of life in South Lebanon. This article a…
The Journeyby Radwa Ashour
This contribution is a translation of the opening chapter of Radwa Ashour's The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student's American Memoirs [Al-Rihla: Ayyam Talibah Misriyah fi Amrika] and a brief critical introduction to the author and her works. Never before published in English translation, this first chapter shows how The Journey is a memoir deeply engaged in politics, literature, and people's struggles. The work charts Ashour's years studying in t…
Fictitious Capital
Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?”
Scholarship in modern Arabic literary studies has treated the literature of the Lebanese Civil War, particularly novels written by women, in some depth. One of the most important texts used in both scholarship and teaching about this war is Ḥanān al-Shaykh’s Ḥikāyat Zahrah , translated as The Story of Zahra . This article focuses specifically on the one chapter in the novel narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s uncle in order to ex…
Dreams Deferred in Arabic
The poetry of Langston Hughes has traveled extensively into Arabic through translation, both in formal publications and on the internet. This chapter explores a range of these translations, in Arab American contexts in the United States and within the Arab world, focusing in particular on one poem, “Harlem [2].” It examines the use of Hughes as a symbol of Black America, and representative of Black poetry and arts, as well as some of the intricac…
Solidarity in multiple registers
This coauthored article is about building solidarity on Canadian university campuses. We construct a narrative in two registers—one justified left, one justified right—that traces our activism within and beyond the university and how our own solidarity has grown over time and informs our current research collaboration. On the one (left) hand, we describe how we as colleagues, comrades, and friends have come to work together in a shared political …
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa
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