POST-WAR ANGLOPHONE LEBANESE FICTION by Syrine Hout ( 9780748643424 )

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POST-WAR ANGLOPHONE LEBANESE FICTION
HOME MATTERS IN THE DIASPORA

By:

Syrine Hout

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Hardback

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0748643427

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9780748643424

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Publisher:

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 September, 2012

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Pages:

224

Description:

Investigates the shifts in ideas of homeness in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels. This title deals with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation.

Synopsis:

This series, dedicated to the study of modern Arabic literature, is unique and unprecedented. it publishes contemporary, scholarly accounts of developments in the field in the past few decades, and will include modern genre studies; titles devoted to the works of both established and new and emerging writers, and to specific contemporary movements, trends, groupings, themes and periods in modern Arabic literature; and studies arranged by geographical regions. Books in the series are written by specialists for those who know little or nothing about the subject.

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