Gendering Civil War

Examines how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society, where competing cultural and political forces present specific and pressing problems for women. This book analyses French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women writers focusing on the civil war of 1975-91. Drawing on a corpus of writings by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Etel Adnan, Evelyne Accad, Andrée Chedid, Hyam Yared and Georgia Makhlouf, the book examines the use of distinctive narrative forms to address inter-linked questions of violence, war trauma and gender relations. Key Features - Studies the intersection between narratology, trauma and gender in the context of non-western literature - Examines Lebanese francophone novels by first- and second-generation women writers from the 1970s to today - Advances new theories on the body, narratology and trauma Mireille Rebeiz is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College.