Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic LiteratureSeries Editor: Rasheed El-EnanyThis series, dedicated to the study of modern Arabic literature, is unique and unprecedented. It includes contemporary genre studies, single-author studies, studies of particular movements, trends, groupings, themes and periods in Modern Arabic Literature, as well as country/region-based studies.'With this clearly argued and critically nuanced study Syrine Hout presents her readers with a thought-provoking analysis of contributions to an emerging literary phenomenon, fictions by writers of Lebanese origin penned in English. This is an important addition to the ever-growing library of critical studies devoted to fiction of English expression written by that most oxymoronic of categories, the insider outside.'Roger Allen, Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of PennsylvaniaInvestigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novelsThis book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative by exploring the permutations of 'homeness' the different spaces (homeland, host country, geographical in-betweenness), mental states and ideals and how all of these interact. It also demonstrates how a collection of stylistically diverse texts characterises a new cultural trend: the founding of a fully fledged variant of foreign-language Lebanese transnational literature in the diaspora.Most of the texts have been produced in, and are about, exile. They deal not only with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (197590) but with one of its crucial and long-standing by-products: expatriation.

Syrine Hout teases out the different meanings and reformulations of home in these novels, be it Lebanon as a nation, a house, a host country, an irretrievable pre-war childhood, a state of in-between dwelling, a portable state of mind and/or a utopian ideal.Key Features Studies 11 texts, many of which have reaped international acclaim Focuses on the novels of Nathalie Abi-Ezzi, Rabih Alameddine, Nada Awar Jarrar, Rawi Hage, Tony Hanania and Patricia Sarrafian Ward Includes an extended bibliography to encourage further research Locates Anglophone Lebanese fiction in larger theoretical discourses on memory, trauma, nationalism and militarisationSyrine Hout is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Viewing Europe from the Outside (1997). Cover design: www.richardbudddesign.co.ukCover image: Lebanese postage stamp © sinankocaslan/iStockphoto[insert logo file]www.euppublishing.

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