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Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Gendering Civil WarFrancophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon

By Mireille Rebeiz

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Provides a new and original analysis on how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war
  • The first book to study the intersection between narrative studies or narratology, trauma and gender in the context of non-western literature
  • Examines Lebanese francophone novels by first- and second-generation women writers from the 1970s to today
  • Explores novels that have never been studied before or received very little attention
  • Offers in-depth analysis of theories and literary analysis
  • Advances new theories on the body, narratology, and trauma

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.

Reviews

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.

In this unique book, Dr. Mireille Rebeiz presents an excellent academic analysis of Lebanese women's writing in French. Her research, in which she emphasizes the writers' commitment to Lebanon and to the French language, is a true and clear roadmap of their work.

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: The Narrative Voice

1. The Feminine I

2. The Humanist Voice of the Omniscient Narrator

Part II – The Narrative Body

3. The Evil, Sick and Disabled Female Body

4. The Magical Body and the Grotesque Body

Conclusion

About the author

Mireille Rebeiz

Mireille Rebeiz is the Chair of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East Studies, Francophone Studies & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College (USA). She is also Adjunct Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. She received her first Doctorate (PhD) in Francophone Studies from Florida State University and her second doctorate (SJD) in International Law from Penn State Dickinson Law. She also holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and Human Rights from Université de Rouen in France, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Saint-Joseph University in Lebanon. Her teaching and research are interdisciplinary and focus on the intersectionality of law, gender, sexuality, oral history, and trauma in the context of armed conflicts with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Her research interests include international law, terrorism, State and non-State actors, and memory laws. She has written and successfully published monographs, several peer-reviewed essays, and editorials in national and international presses. Her first book Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon (EUP, 2022) earned her the AAUW American Fellowship and was nominated for the John Leonard Prize.

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