{"product_id":"native-tongue-stranger-talk-michelle-hartman-9780815633563","title":"Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language\u003cbr\u003e literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman\u003cbr\u003e shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary\u003cbr\u003e French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim\u003cbr\u003e that these writers express a Francophile or \"colonized\" consciousness, this\u003cbr\u003e book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political\u003cbr\u003e and cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon. Hartman argues\u003cbr\u003e that their innovative language inscribes messages about society into their\u003cbr\u003e novels by disrupting class-status hierarchies, narrow ethno-religious identities, \u003cbr\u003e and rigid gender roles. Because the languages of these texts reflect the\u003cbr\u003e crucial issues of their times, Native Tongue, Stranger Talk guides the reader\u003cbr\u003e through three key periods of Lebanese history: the French Mandate and\u003cbr\u003e Early Independence, the Civil War, and the postwar period. Three novels\u003cbr\u003e are discussed in each time period, exposing the contours of how the authors\u003cbr\u003e \"write Arabic in French\" to invent new literary languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Hartman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815633564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815633563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.33w x 1.04d","brand":"Michelle Hartman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926474359039,"sku":"9780815633563","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8598b083-0995-4c60-bb2d-9237e2798a59.jpg?v=1681083274","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/native-tongue-stranger-talk-michelle-hartman-9780815633563","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}