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

by Michelle Hartman

Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these writers express a Francophile or "colonized" consciousness, this
book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815633564
• ISBN13: 9780815633563
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"