Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes
- Part I Homesickness and Sickness of Home
- Part II Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
- Part III Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
- Part IV Exile versus Repatriation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes
- Part I Homesickness and Sickness of Home
- Part II Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
- Part III Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
- Part IV Exile versus Repatriation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book is the result of a ten-year academic engagement with contemporary Anglophone Lebanese fiction. These texts captured my attention for several reasons, not least because their hard-hitting recollections of the Lebanese Civil War and its long-term effects on youth echoed some of my own experiences. In addition, the ever-increasing size of this corpus, coupled with mounting international acclaim, demanded that it be examined, in a comparative framework, as the product of an entirely new generation of fresh voices reflecting (on) the conflict from a post-war perspective and geographically distant, that is, diasporic, locations. I belong to the same generation of the selected authors, who lived through the war and left Lebanon at some point but returned to it via their literary works. I have been fortunate enough to meet three of the six authors and established contact with the others through email. Reading and writing about their narratives has been an immensely rewarding experience, both on a personal and a professional level.
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- Post-War Anglophone Lebanese FictionHome Matters in the Diaspora, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2012