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The literature of the Lebanese diaspora : representations of place and transnational identity / Jumana Bayeh.
Van Pelt Library PR9570.L4 B39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayeh, Jumana, author.
- Series:
- Library of modern Middle East studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lebanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Lebanese literature.
- Lebanese literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Lebanese.
- Foreign countries.
- Lebanon--In literature.
- Lebanon.
- Transnationalism in literature.
- Lebanese--Foreign countries.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 277 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- Contents:
- Part I War and the City
- 1 The Urban Space: Beirut at War 33
- 2 The Destruction of West Beirut in Tony Hanania's Unreal City 43
- 3 Undermining the Christian City in Rawi Hage's De Nrro's Game 69
- Part II Home, Mobility, Immobility
- 4 Domicile and Diaspora: Women Write the Home 99
- 5 Stasis and Domesticity in Nada Awar Jarrar's Somewhere, Home 109
- 6 Home and Movement in Alia Yunis' The Night Counter 139
- Part III Contesting the Nation-State
- 7 Nation, State and Diaspora 171
- 8 One Land or Two? Israel and Palestine in Amin Maalouf's Ports of Call 183.
- ISBN:
- 9781780769981
- 1780769989
- OCLC:
- 896613721
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