| #4438629 in Books | 2012-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.30 x.90 x9.30l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||||"For both the generalist and the specialist reader, Hout's text offers a fine overview of the central themes in Lebanese diaspora writing. At its core, it provides a powerful argument for why we need to be reading these rich if often dark novels." -- Mara Naa
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 Lebanes...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) | Syrine Hout.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
