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Employing Bakhtinian notion of the chronotope and Tess Cosslett’s two time frames model of feminist matrilineage, this study argues that the chronotope of the house in Somewhere, Home plays a major role in displaying matrilineage and this house clearly manifests the synchronic and diachronic planes: those of female bonding, feminist recovery, and feminist progress.
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The synchronic plane refers to the way in which women from different generations unite and bond whereas the diachronic plane goes backward and forward in time. Somewhere, Home explores the different meanings of home, in a world of emigration, of war, of economic migration and of return, of women who stay and men who leave, of women who leave and then return."--Jacket
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The Chronotope of the House and Feminist Matrilinealism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home
Abstract
This paper studies feminist matrilinealism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s novel Somewhere Home.
In this novel the author builds her stories around a house which was inhabited by several generations of female ancestors. Among their friends are older politicians, university friends often visiting from lucrative posts in Europe or the USA, and local political activists.
The retaliation raids by Israel and the political aftermath further shatter their community: some flee to the mountains, many leave the country.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss1/4
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'The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever-changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. Tess Cosslett claims that the Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope in matrilineal narratives influences the space and time structures of women’s writing whereby women communicate along two time frames simultaneously: a synchronic, horizontal plane and a diachronic, vertical axis.
Some like Layla try to identify more deeply what it is that holds her to this place, why she cannot leave.
Nada Awar Jarrar has written a powerful and moving novel, full of character and insight, of joy and tears, which makes us understand how people can stand such daily fear of violence and can continue to have faith in the country of their heart.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Somewhere, home
228 pages ; 20 cm
"Nada Awar Jarrar's book tells the stories of three women, each of them removed from home, returning to home, searching for home, for somewhere that can be home.
A physical location, but also a symbol of connections, of safety, of family, of identity.
And Lebanese born and bred Layla, only recently returned from Australia after fleeing the earlier civil war to teach her students again. Each of them is Lebanese, each is unknown to the others, but each is drawn back to a country, to a village, to a house, that is - or was - or can be - home." "Maysa returns to live in the house that was her grand-parents when she was a child, in a village high on the slopes of Mount Lebanon, leaving Beirut and, at times, her husband and daughter, to search for her past and to imagine the past of her family in the home of her childhood.
Luma Balaa is Associate Professor of English Studies in the Department of English at the Lebanese American University of Beirut. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Aida, who has long since left the country of her birth, returns to the Lebanon in search of the spirit of Amou Mohammad, the Palestinian refugee who was a second father to her and her sisters when she was a child, Salwa, now an old woman, taken by her husband from her family home, her homeland, and her family when she was a young wife and mother, recalls her life from her hospital bed, surrounded by her children and her grandson, but still, in some sense, far from home." "Every one of us needs somewhere to call home, a country, a place, a house.
She is the author of several international refereed articles.
Recommended Citation
Balaa, Luma (2021) "The Chronotope of the House and Feminist Matrilinealism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home," Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 22: Iss. 1, Article 4.