Gendering Civil War: Francophone Women's Writing in Lebanon

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 Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andrée 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.

Author: Mireille Rebeiz
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/15/2023
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781474499279