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Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Michelle Hartman
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Description for Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Hardcover. This is the first study in English of French-language fiction by Lebanese women writers and therefore brings a relatively unknown literary tradition to light. Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 2ADF; 2CSR; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
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 cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon.
Hartman argues that their innovative language inscribes messages about society into their novels by disrupting class-status hierarchies, narrow ethno-religious identities, and rigid gender roles. Because the ... Read more
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 cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon.
Hartman argues that their innovative language inscribes messages about society into their novels by disrupting class-status hierarchies, narrow ethno-religious identities, and rigid gender roles. Because the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633563
SKU
V9780815633563
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About Michelle Hartman
Michelle Hartman is associate professor of Arabic literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada. She is the author of Jesus, Joseph and Job: Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's Fiction.
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