Syrine Hout

Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Home Matters in the Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748643431
• Artikelnr.: 38229044

Autorenporträt

Syrine Hout is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Viewing Europe from the Outside: Cultural Encounters and Critiques in the 18th-Century Pseudo-Oriental Travelogue and the 19th-Century 'Voyage en Orient.' (Peter Lang, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes
Part I: Homesickness and Sickness of Home
Chapter 1: Koolaids and Unreal City
Chapter 2: The Perv and Somewhere, Home
Part II: Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
Chapter 3: I, the Divine and The Bullet Collection
Part III: Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
Chapter 4: The Hakawati and A Girl Made of Dust
Chapter 5: De Niro's Game
Part IV: Exile versus Repatriation
Chapter 6: Cockroach and A Good Land
Afterword
Notes
Bilbiography
Index.