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Om Gendering Civil War

Examines how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society, where competing cultural and political forces present specific and pressing problems for women. This book analyses French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975-91. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andrée Chedid, Hyam Yared and Georgia Makhlouf, the book examines the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma and gender relations. Key Features - Studies the intersection between narratology, trauma and gender in the context of non-western literature - Examines Lebanese francophone novels by first- and second-generation women writers from the 1970s to today - Advances new theories on the body, narratology and trauma Mireille Rebeiz is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781474499279
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 256
  • Utgitt:
  • 15. november 2023
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Forventet levering: 12. november 2024

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Examines how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society, where competing cultural and political forces present specific and pressing problems for women. This book analyses French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975-91. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andrée Chedid, Hyam Yared and Georgia Makhlouf, the book examines the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma and gender relations. Key Features - Studies the intersection between narratology, trauma and gender in the context of non-western literature - Examines Lebanese francophone novels by first- and second-generation women writers from the 1970s to today - Advances new theories on the body, narratology and trauma Mireille Rebeiz is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College.

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