Women''s War Stories - The Lebanese Civil War, Women''s Labor, and the Creative Arts

"Using stories as a framing concept, this collection of academic essays focuses on women's lives, work, and creative production during the seventeen-year Lebanese Civil War (1975-1992)"--

About the author

Michelle Hartman is professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. She is the author of Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language.

Malek Abisaab is professor of history at McGill University. He is the author of Militant Women of a Fragile Nation.

Summary

Developed out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their ‘war stories’.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Abisaab Hartman
• Assisted by: Malek Abisaab (Editor), Michelle Hartman (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780815637820
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3782-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art