Michelle Hartman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michelle Hartman is an academic and translator. She obtained a BA from Columbia College in 1993 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. She is currently a professor of Arabic and francophone literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She is the author of a number of academic papers and several monographs including "Breaking Broken English: Black Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language", which won the College Language Association award for creative scholarship in 2020. She is also a translator of contemporary Arabic literature, and has translated twelve novels and a short story collection, including Iman Humaydan Younes’s Wild Mulberries and "The Weight of Paradise", and Alexandra Chreiteh's Always Coca-Cola and Ali and His Russian Mother, Shahla Ujayli's "Summer with the Enemy" and "A Sky So Close to Us" and Jana Elhassan's "The 99th Floor" and "All the Women Inside Me" among others. Wild Mulberries was shortlisted for the 2009 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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- "The First Boat and the First Oar": Inventions of Lebanon in the Writings of Michel Chiha (2003) (27)
- Gender, Genre, and the (Missing) Gazelle: Arab Women Writers and the Politics of Translation (2012) (18)
- Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt 1892-2008 (2013) (14)
- “this sweet/sweet music”: Jazz, Sam Cooke, and Reading Arab American Literary Identities (2006) (14)
- WRITING ARABS AND AFRICA(NS) IN AMERICA: ADONIS AND RADWA ASHOUR FROM HARLEM TO LADY LIBERTY (2005) (5)
- Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon (2014) (4)
- An Arab Woman Poet as a Crossover Artist?: Reconsidering the Ambivalent Legacy of Al-Khansaʾ (2012) (4)
- "Besotted with the Bright Lights of Imperialism":? Arab Subjectivity Constructed Against New York's Many Faces (2004) (4)
- MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, MULTIPLE VOICES:READING ANDREE CHEDID'S LA MAISON SANS RACINES (2000) (4)
- Re-reading women in/to Naguib Mahfouz's al-Liss wa'l kilab (the thief and the dogs) (1997) (3)
- The Journey by Radwa Ashour (2015) (2)
- Dreams Deferred, Translated: Radwa Ashour and Langston Hughes (2016) (2)
- “Zahra’s Uncle, or Where Are Men in Women’s War Stories?” (2020) (2)
- Breaking Broken English (2019) (1)
- Hanadi Al-Samman. Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma Authorship and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. ix + 256 pages, works cited, index. Cloth US$39.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3402-7. (2016) (1)
- “My Tale Is Too Long to Tell”: The Locust and the Bird between South Lebanon and New York City (2015) (1)
- Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (review) (2008) (1)
- Whose values, who's valued? (2019) (1)
- Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction By Robert J. C. Young Wiley Blackwell, 2016 (reissued from 2001), 500 pp. (2017) (0)
- Callaloo Symposium in Houston: February 11–13, 2010, Houston, Texas (2010) (0)
- Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (London/New York: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 327. $130.00 cloth. (2008) (0)
- DALYA COHEN-MOR, A Matter of Fate: The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Pp. 327. $55.00 cloth (2004) (0)
- Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel, written by Elizabeth M. Holt (2018) (0)
- Syrine Hout. Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 202 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$105.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4342-4. (2013) (0)
- THE CITY OF DELAWARE CITY (2015) (0)
- Solidarity in multiple registers (2022) (0)
- Jesus, Joseph and Job (2002) (0)
- The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender, and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 383 pages.) (2004) (0)
- Gender, Politics and Islam: By Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, Judith A. Howard, eds. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 354 pages.) (2004) (0)
- Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (review) (2012) (0)
- Prose fiction (2018) (0)
- Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English (review) (2008) (0)
- Jesus, Joseph and Job: Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's Fiction (2002) (0)
- Native Tongue, Stranger Talk (2014) (0)
- Translating a Literary Tradition : Modern Arabic Literature (2016) (0)
- 11. Literary Studies (2013) (0)
- Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English (review) (2007) (0)
- Amin Malak's Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English (2005) (0)
- Irrevocable Conditions: Black, Palestinian, Disabled Homes in Jana Elhassan's The 99th Floor (2021) (0)
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