Memory, Home, and Exile in Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Fiction

Hout, Syrine

doi:10.3200/crit.46.3.219-233

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“…In a study of Anglophone Lebanese fi ction, Hout (2005) discusses the works of two authors, Nada Jarrar and Rabih Alameddinne, and illustrates the different constructions of home and exile they express. Among my respondents, Lebanese immigrant women experience and remember their homeland through physical practices and in reference to specific locations and family members.…”

Section: Mobile Homelands: Practical and Relationalmentioning

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“…Such a difference is also refl ected in the works of Lebanese immigrant writers. In a study of Anglophone Lebanese fi ction, Hout (2005) discusses the works of two authors, Nada Jarrar and Rabih Alameddinne, and illustrates the different constructions of home and exile they express. While not accounting for gender as a relevant factor in shaping these reconstructions, Hout emphasizes that the two authors present oppositional attitudes towards and views of memory, war, and exile.…”

Section: Mobile Homelands: Practical and Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Representing the Homeland

Abdelhady

2008

Cultural Dynamics

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This article examines the representation of home among members of the Lebanese diaspora in New York, Montreal and Paris. Lebanese immigrants view home as both a concrete reality that is achieved physically or in relation with others and a symbolic reference point that moves beyond territorial boundaries. These overlapping strategies allow them to imagine and recreate their sense of home and belonging (to both a past and present) that provide sources of stability used in dealing with life in the diaspora. However, these strategies also highlight a lack of desire to return to Lebanon as they illustrate how Lebanese immigrants bring home to their new settings in ways that question national forms of belonging and ethnic identifi cation. As a result, the myth of return which was once considered a defi ning feature of diasporic communities is no longer a unifying point among members of the diaspora.

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Section: Mobile Homelands: Practical and Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mobile Homelands: Practical and Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representing the Homeland

Abdelhady

2008

Cultural Dynamics

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Feeling Embodied and Being Displaced: A Phenomenological Exploration of Hospital Scenes in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction

Pickens

2013

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

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Writing Memories of the Present: Alternative Narratives about the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon

Fadda-Conrey¹

2010

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This essay focuses on a selection of blog and online journal entries that document "The Summer 2006 Siege of Lebanon" from a Lebanese perspective, showing how they establish "a living archive" of the war by creating dynamic and varied narratives that underscore the immediacy of the war experience. Examples of the cyberblog-as-testimony written by the likes of Rahsa Salti and Mazen Kerbaj change the topography of war, both at home and abroad, thus broadening its impact and the way it affects its subjects, whether directly or indirectly. Even more pertinent is the ways in which these online testimonials as alternative war narratives possess the potential for connecting the writer and reader across international borders, thus promising a significant transformation of the fabric of cultural spaces by breaking through what is (mis)conceived as clearly defined personal and public, as well as national and cultural parameters.

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Memory, Home, and Exile in Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Fiction

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Representing the Homeland

Representing the Homeland

Feeling Embodied and Being Displaced: A Phenomenological Exploration of Hospital Scenes in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction

Writing Memories of the Present: Alternative Narratives about the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon

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