Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes
- Part I Homesickness and Sickness of Home
- Part II Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
- Part III Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
- Part IV Exile versus Repatriation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Series Editor's Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and Routes
- Part I Homesickness and Sickness of Home
- Part II Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War
- Part III Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad
- Part IV Exile versus Repatriation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A new and unique series, ‘Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature’ will, it is hoped, fill in a gap in scholarship in the field of modern Arabic literature. Its dedication to Arabic literature in the modern period, that is, from the nineteenth century onwards, is what makes it unique among series undertaken by academic publishers in the English-speaking world. Individual books on modern Arabic literature in general or aspects of it have been and continue to be published sporadically. Series on Islamic studies and Arab/Islamic thought and civilisation are not in short supply either in the academic world, but these are far removed from the study of Arabic literature qua literature, that is, imaginative, creative literature as we understand the term when, for instance, we speak of English literature, or French literature, and so on. Even series labelled ‘Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature’ make no period distinction, extending their purview from the sixth century to the present, and often including non-Arabic literatures of the region. This series aims to redress the situation by focusing on the Arabic literature and criticism of today, stretching its interest to the earliest beginnings of Arab modernity in the nineteenth century.
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- Post-War Anglophone Lebanese FictionHome Matters in the Diaspora, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2012