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2 produkter
Del 10 - World Writing in French: New Archipelagoes
Arabic for All
by Nabil Wakim
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 594 kr
Kommande
In Arabic for All, Nabil Wakim transforms a deeply personal loss into a powerful public reckoning. Born in Beirut and raised in France, Wakim grew up with Arabic as his mother tongue, only to find himself, as an adult, unable to fully inhabit the language that shaped his earliest world. From that intimate fracture emerges a work of remarkable clarity, urgency, and emotional force.Blending memoir, investigation, and cultural analysis, Wakim moves far beyond one individual story to examine the paradoxical place of Arabic in contemporary France: a language that is widely present and deeply influential, yet persistently burdened by stigma, suspicion, and political anxiety. With warmth, wit, and precision, he brings together family memory, public debate, and the voices of others who have lived the same contradiction: to feel claimed by a language and estranged from it at once.The result is a book that is at once intimate and public-facing, moving and incisive, accessible and intellectually sharp. Arabic for All is a meditation on language, identity, and transmission, but also a compelling inquiry into who gets to belong, on what terms, and at what emotional cost.
Del 10 - World Writing in French: New Archipelagoes
Arabic for All
by Nabil Wakim
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
613 kr
Kommande
In Arabic for All, Nabil Wakim transforms a deeply personal loss into a powerful public reckoning. Born in Beirut and raised in France, Wakim grew up with Arabic as his mother tongue, only to find himself, as an adult, unable to fully inhabit the language that shaped his earliest world. From that intimate fracture emerges a work of remarkable clarity, urgency, and emotional force.Blending memoir, investigation, and cultural analysis, Wakim moves far beyond one individual story to examine the paradoxical place of Arabic in contemporary France: a language that is widely present and deeply influential, yet persistently burdened by stigma, suspicion, and political anxiety. With warmth, wit, and precision, he brings together family memory, public debate, and the voices of others who have lived the same contradiction: to feel claimed by a language and estranged from it at once.The result is a book that is at once intimate and public-facing, moving and incisive, accessible and intellectually sharp. Arabic for All is a meditation on language, identity, and transmission, but also a compelling inquiry into who gets to belong, on what terms, and at what emotional cost.