Beirut to carnival city : reading Rawi Hage / edited by Kryzystof Majer.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Lebanese Connections -- 2 (Post- )Canadian Horizons -- 3 Literature, Imagination and (Un- )Belonging -- 4 Mapping the Critical Territory -- Prologue -- 1 To Have/ to Be -- 2 Light -- 3 Flight -- Part 1 Homelands/Cityscapes -- Chapter 1 Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places: the Various Lebanons of De Niro's Game -- Chapter 2 The Body and the City: Race, Sexuality and Urban Space in Carnival

1 "Through a Prism of Memory, Desire and Fantasy": Mapping Carnival City -- 2 A Boat, a Plane, a Library ...? Fly's Cab -- 3 Oppressions and Transgressions: What Space Signifies -- 4 "From Everywhere": Mapping Ethnic Identities -- 5 Where Is Here? The City as Symbol -- 6 "A Community of 'the Unhomely' "? -- 7 The Liberations of Carnival -- 8 The Figure on the Carpet -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Psycho-Spatial Continuum in Cockroach -- Part 2 Justice/Rights -- Chapter 4 Expanding the Space of Human Rights in Literature, Reclaiming Literature as a Human Right: Cockroach and Carnival

Chapter 5 The Vengeful Refugee: Justice and Violence in Cockroach -- Chapter 6 "To Roam a Borderless World": the Poetics of Movement and Marginality in Carnival -- Part 3 Languages/Narratives -- Chapter 7 A Political Representation of the Lebanese Civil War: De Niro's Game as Minor Literature -- 1 The Deterritorialization of the Language -- 2 The Politicization of the Particular and the Collective Value of Enunciation -- Chapter 8 Cockroach: Compassion, Confession and "Wonderful Stories" -- Chapter 9 "Not Settling for Half the Story": Speech, Fantasy and Empowerment in Cockroach

1 Scenography, Discursive Ethos and Storytelling: Empowerment Strategies -- 2 Social Exclusion and the Metamorphosis Fantasy -- 3 Conclusion -- Part 4 Bodies/Grotesques -- Chapter 10 The Alchemy of Rawi Hage's Fiction: Transmuting Frozen Indifference into a Desire for Change -- 1 Grotesque Bodies, Unexpected Profanations, and Comic Crownings: Reclaiming and Situating the Experience of the Migrant -- 2 Laughter's Hard Revelations: Life as a Play that Masters the Players and Fear as an Instrument of Indoctrination and Coercion

3 Carnival as Political Utopia? Convivial Proximity, Festive Inclusion, and Alarming Turmoil -- 4 The Shamanic Power of Hage's Fiction: Embracing Levity to Heal and Revive a Dying Political -- Chapter 11 "The Commotion of the Tangible": Gravity and Levity in Carnival -- Chapter 12 Angels and Demons: Images of Women in Cockroach -- Epilogue Beirut Hellfire Society: Beyond the Carnivalesque -- Works Cited -- Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2020).

"Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of commissioned critical essays on the work of the highly relevant Canadian writer. With four acclaimed novels and scattered short fictions, the Lebanese-born Hage has become a formidable literary force. The volume is an attempt to situate his fiction not only in the context of Lebanese diasporic writing, but that of trans-geographical literature, as well as to emphasize his progressive dissociation from the realist paradigm. The goal is also to correct an imbalance of critical attention by refocusing on Hage's more recent, equally challenging work. The richness of Hage's fiction is attested to by the diversity of thematic concerns and critical approaches. The volume reflects the worldwide range of Canada-oriented research, and places European perspectives alongside North American and Lebanese ones. Significantly, it features an original essay authored by Hage's literary peer, Madeleine Thien." --Provided by publisher

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