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

Author

Michelle Hartman

Publisher

Syracuse University Press; USYRC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815652694

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction