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Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of commissioned critical essays on the work of the highly relevant Canadian writer. With four acclaimed novels and scattered short fictions, the Lebanese-born Hage has become a formidable literary force. The volume is an attempt to situate his fiction not only in the context of Lebanese diasporic writing, but that of trans-geographical literature, as well as to emphasize his progressive dissociation from the realist paradigm. The goal is also to correct an imbalance of critical attention by refocusing on Hage’s more recent, equally challenging work. The richness of Hage’s fiction is attested to by the diversity of thematic concerns and critical approaches. The volume reflects the worldwide range of Canada-oriented research, and places European perspectives alongside North American and Lebanese ones. Significantly, it features an original essay authored by Hage’s literary peer, Madeleine Thien. Contributors: F. Elizabeth Dahab, André Forget, Kyle Gamble, Syrine Hout, Ewa Macura-Nnamdi, Krzysztof Majer, Lisa Marchi, Judit Molnár, Alex Ramon, Rita Sakr, Dima Samaha, Madeleine Thien, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka

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Author:   Krzysztof Majer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   212
Weight:   0.597kg
ISBN:  

9789004417298

ISBN 10:   900441729
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Contributors Introduction Let's Not Belong : Situating Rawi Hage's Elusive Fictions Krzysztof Majer Prologue No Condition Is Permanent : the Fictions of Rawi Hage and Ma Jian Madeleine Thien Part 1 Homelands/Cityscapes 1 Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places: the Various Lebanons of De Niro's Game Syrine Hout 2 The Body and the City: Race, Sexuality and Urban Space in Carnival Alex Ramon 3 The Psycho-Spatial Continuum in Cockroach Judit Molnar Part 2 Justice/Rights 4 Expanding the Space of Human Rights in Literature, Reclaiming Literature as a Human Right: Cockroach and Carnival Rita Sakr 5 The Vengeful Refugee: Justice and Violence in Cockroach Andre Forget 6 To Roam a Borderless World : the Poetics of Movement and Marginality in Carnival F. Elizabeth Dahab Part 3 Languages/Narratives 7 A Political Representation of the Lebanese Civil War: De Niro's Game as Minor Literature Kyle Gamble 8 Cockroach: Compassion, Confession and Wonderful Stories Ewa Macura-Nnamdi 9 Not Settling for Half the Story : Speech, Fantasy and Empowerment in Cockroach Dima Samaha Part 4 Bodies/Grotesques 10 The Alchemy of Rawi Hage's Fiction: Transmuting Frozen Indifference into a Desire for Change Lisa Marchi 11 The Commotion of the Tangible : Gravity and Levity in Carnival Krzysztof Majer 12 Angels and Demons: Images of Women in Cockroach Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka Epilogue Beirut Hellfire Society: Beyond the Carnivalesque Krzysztof Majer Works Cited Index

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Krzysztof Majer, Ph.D. (2008) is Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has published on Canadian literature, North American Jewish culture and intermediality. He is also a translator of literature (e.g Kerouac, Ginsberg, Chabon, deWitt, Gaston and Herr).

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