Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction

Syrine Hout is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Viewing Europe from the Outside: Cultural Encounters and Critiques in the 18th-Century Pseudo-Oriental Travelogue and the 19th-Century 'Voyage en Orient.' (Peter Lang, 1997).

In Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction, Hout delivers a pioneering work of scholarship of what she presciently foresees becoming “a fuller-fledged variant of diasporic Lebanese literature” (p. 11). During a period where transnational Arab literature is still more commonly grouped under the country of relocation (for example, Arab American/Arab Canadian), Hout importantly offers new possibilities for analytical distinction. Her qualification of how these authors’ works resist official, amnesiac Lebanese policy regarding remembering and commemoration of the civil war also reveals an important political purpose for the literature under analysis... An interdisciplinary study that offers a fresh analysis of the works of several individually celebrated authors, Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction reveals new pathways of interpretation, and for scholarship more broadly.'

• ForewordIntroduction: Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Roots and RoutesPart I: Homesickness and Sickness of Home1: Koolaids and Unreal City2: The Perv and Somewhere, HomePart II: Trauma Narratives: The Scars of War3: I, the Divine and The Bullet CollectionPart III: Playing with Fire at Home and Abroad4: The Hakawati and A Girl Made of Dust5: De Niro’s GamePart IV: Exile versus Repatriation6: Cockroach and A Good LandAfterword NotesBilbiographyIndex