Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction : Home Matters in the Diaspora (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature)

Hout, Syrine

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399564847
• DDC分類 820.9

Full Description

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.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction: Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes

Part I: Homesickness and Sickness of Home
1: Koolaids and Unreal City
2: The Perv and Somewhere, Home

Part II: Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
3: I, the Divine and The Bullet Collection

Part III: Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
4: The Hakawati and A Girl Made of Dust
5: De Niro's Game

Part IV: Exile versus Repatriation
6: Cockroach and A Good Land

Afterword
Notes
Bilbiography
Index