Code-Switching in Transnational Anglophone Arab Fiction

Syrine Hout is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Viewing Europe from the Outside: Cultural Encounters and Critiques in the 18th-Century Pseudo-Oriental Travelogue and the 19th-Century 'Voyage en Orient.' (Peter Lang, 1997).

• AcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Let the Texts Have their Say: Reconceptualising Literary Code-SwitchingPart I: Liminalities as Interlingual Spaces1. Koolaids: To Paint, Love, and Die in Arabic2. The Bullet Collection: Contact Zones, Checkpoints, and Liminal PointsPart II: Speaking (Volumes) against Lebanese Phalange Extremism3. De Niro’s Game: Translational Games as Critical Encoding4. A Girl Made of Dust: The Sharp(er) Taste of BilingualismPart III: Multipronged Lingual Tactics during Global Crises5. When All Else Fails: Swerving to Succeed in Surviving6. The Lebs: Identitarian Politics and Discursive Code-SwitchesAfterword: Future Directions for Writers, Readers, and CriticsBibliographyIndex