Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Syrine Hout shows how 11 stylistically diverse texts founded a fully-fledged variant of foreign-language Lebanese transnational literature in the diaspora. The novels studied were written in and are substantially about, life in exile. They deal with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation.