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

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Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Peter Gran, Series Editor Other titles in Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) Nelly Hanna Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine Iris Agmon The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan Steven Salaita In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Nelly Hanna Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760–1840 Peter Gran The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837–1952 Raouf Abbas and Assem El-Dessouky; trans. Amer Mohsen with Mona Zikri; ed. Peter Gran The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism Amira El-Azhary Sonbol Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo Mary Ann Fay Native Tongue, Stranger Talk The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon Michelle Hartman Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2014 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2014 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3356-3 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5269-4 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hartman, Michelle. Native tongue, stranger talk : the Arabic and French literary landscapes of Lebanon / Michelle Hartman. pages cm. — (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3356-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5269-4 (ebook) 1. Arabic literature— Lebanon—History and criticism. 2. Lebanese literature (French)—History and criticism. I. Title. PJ8078.H37 2014 892.7'0995692—dc23 2014014174 Manufactured in the United States of America For Nour, Karim, Suhayl, Layal, Yasmine, Taleen, and of course Tameem Michelle Hartman is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She has published widely on literature from the Arab world written in Arabic, English, and French and is the author of Jesus, Joseph, and Job: Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction (2002). She also works on the politics of Arabic-English translation, publishing in Feminist Studies and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other journals. She is herself a literary translator from Arabic to English, primarily Lebanese women’s novels, including Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Coca-Cola and Iman Humaydan’s Other Lives and Wild Mulberries, which won second place in the Said Ghobash-Banipal Award for best novel translated from Arabic (2009). ...