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Ghada Samman's Beirut Nightmares: A Woman's Life Ghada Samman's Beirut Nightmares: A Woman's Life Sbaiti, Hanan 2009-09-01 00:00:00 Ghada Samman is a Syrian writer who lived in Beirut. Her novel Beirut Nightmares tells the story of a woman who is holed up in her house at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war in 1975. Her only companions are her neighbors: an old man and his son, as well as their male servant. Instead of chapters, the novel progresses through 151 episodes that the author labels “Nightmare 1” and so on which are sometimes hallucinations, at other times actual nightmares, and still other times, realities nightmarish in nature.

Hanan Sbaiti traces the progression of personal destruction/construction and disempowerment/empowerment through which the narrator in Ghada Samman's Beirut Nightmares passes as a result of the isolation experienced during non-stop aggressive fighting. At the beginning of the enforced house arrest, the narrator takes the food that she has in her house and adds it to her neighbor's supply; however, with the continued house arrest, and the resulting scarcity of food and water, her will to survive results in keeping for herself the hoard of food which she discovers in one of her neighbor's rooms.

Sbaiti analyzes the narrator's transition from one mental state to another by studying the social and psychological aspects that contribute to such a change. In doing so, Sbaiti examines if such changes during conflict and war are reflections of human nature in general or if there are specific implications pertaining to women and conflict. Women's Studies International Forum Elsevier http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/ghada-samman-s-beirut-nightmares-a-woman-s-life-ZBYZNIcxvI. Abstract Ghada Samman is a Syrian writer who lived in Beirut. Her novel Beirut Nightmares tells the story of a woman who is holed up in her house at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war in 1975.

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Her only companions are her neighbors: an old man and his son, as well as their male servant. Instead of chapters, the novel progresses through 151 episodes that the author labels “Nightmare 1” and so on which are sometimes hallucinations, at other times actual nightmares, and still other times, realities nightmarish in nature.

Hanan Sbaiti traces the progression of personal destruction/construction and disempowerment/empowerment through which the narrator in Ghada Samman's Beirut Nightmares passes as a result of the isolation experienced during non-stop aggressive fighting. At the beginning of the enforced house arrest, the narrator takes the food that she has in her house and adds it to her neighbor's supply; however, with the continued house arrest, and the resulting scarcity of food and water, her will to survive results in keeping for herself the hoard of food which she discovers in one of her neighbor's rooms.

Sbaiti analyzes the narrator's transition from one mental state to another by studying the social and psychological aspects that contribute to such a change. In doing so, Sbaiti examines if such changes during conflict and war are reflections of human nature in general or if there are specific implications pertaining to women and conflict.

Journal Women's Studies International Forum – Elsevier Published: Sep 1, 2009. Intesa kreditni kalkulator.

The movement toward writing, analyzing, and promoting environmentally aware literature, which started most visibly in western academia, is fast becoming an international phenomenon such that it is only fitting to make a serious effort at incorporating non-western voices in ecocritical studies. As an Arab scholar writing and teaching in the USA, I am especially interested in advocating for the participation of Middle Eastern scholars in this emerging field that combines many scholars' universal passion and concern for literature and the natural world. The project of incorporating Arab voices, however, is a two-way street. It requires a genuine cooperation between Arab scholars and writers who are interested in environmental scholarship and existing ecocriticism scholars, writers, and editors in the West.