Overview

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 examines French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975-1991. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Venus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andree Chedid, Hyam Yared, and Georgia Makhlouf, some of which has previously received little or no scholarly attention, the book examines in innovative ways the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma, and gender relations.

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""This is an unusual approach to the literature; innovative and creatively conducted. The author's reputation is growing and the originality of this book will be sure to surprise and interest scholars and other people in the field."" -Evelyne Accad, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Lebanese American University in Beirut'

"""This is an unusual approach to the literature; innovative and creatively conducted. The author's reputation is growing and the originality of this book will be sure to surprise and interest scholars and other people in the field."" -Evelyne Accad, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Lebanese American University in Beirut'"

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Mireille Rebeiz is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College. She is also contributing faculty to the Middle Eastern Studies Program. She earned her Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from Florida State University in the United States and a master's degree in International Law and Human Rights from Universit de Rouen in France. Her research focuses on war, trauma, and gender issues in the Levant and North Africa. She published several articles in French and English in peer-reviewed American and international journals.

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