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Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon

Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon

Hartman, Michelle

Hardcover

Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0815633564
ISBN13: 9780815633563
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Jun 30 2014
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.53
Language: English

Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these writers express a Francophile or colonized consciousness, this
book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political
and cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon. Hartman argues
that their innovative language inscribes messages about society into their
novels by disrupting class-status hierarchies, narrow ethno-religious identities,
and rigid gender roles. Because the languages of these texts reflect the
crucial issues of their times, Native Tongue, Stranger Talk guides the reader
through three key periods of Lebanese history: the French Mandate and
Early Independence, the Civil War, and the postwar period. Three novels
are discussed in each time period, exposing the contours of how the authors
write Arabic in French to invent new literary languages.

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