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 analyses French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975 91. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Venus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andree Chedid, Hyam Yared and Georgia Makhlouf, the book examines the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma and gender relations.
About the AuthorMireille Rebeiz, Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Seuality Studies, Dickinson College.
Book InformationISBN 9781474499262
Author Mireille RebeizFormat Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press