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Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians
Girard, Aurélien, Santus, Cesare and Sanchez-Summerer, Karène. "Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians". Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: The Collected Works of Bernard Heyberger, edited by Aurélien Girard, Cesare Santus, Vassa Kontouma and Karène Sanchez Summerer, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp. 10-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503556-008
Girard, A., Santus, C. & Sanchez-Summerer, K. (2023). Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians. In A. Girard, C. Santus, V. Kontouma & K. Sanchez Summerer (Ed.), Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: The Collected Works of Bernard Heyberger (pp. 10-46). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503556-008
Girard, A., Santus, C. and Sanchez-Summerer, K. 2023. Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians. In: Girard, A., Santus, C., Kontouma, V. and Sanchez Summerer, K. ed. Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: The Collected Works of Bernard Heyberger. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 10-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503556-008
Girard, Aurélien, Santus, Cesare and Sanchez-Summerer, Karène. "Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians" In Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: The Collected Works of Bernard Heyberger edited by Aurélien Girard, Cesare Santus, Vassa Kontouma and Karène Sanchez Summerer, 10-46. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503556-008
Girard A, Santus C, Sanchez-Summerer K. Introduction: A New History of Middle Eastern Christians. In: Girard A, Santus C, Kontouma V, Sanchez Summerer K (ed.) Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: The Collected Works of Bernard Heyberger. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 2023. p.10-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503556-008
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Eric Aronoff
Eric Aronoff [Ph.D. English, Rutgers University] is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Eric’s research interests include 19th- and early 20th-century American literature; anthropology, theories of culture, race, and nation, literature and the environment, and science fiction. His book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture was published by University of Virginia Press in 2013. It traces debates over the idea of “culture” among artists, literary critics, and anthropologists during the early part of the twentieth century. Eric won a Teacher-Scholar Award in recognition of his devotion to and skill in teaching and has led the Nature, Culture, and Environmental Issues in a Green Israel study abroad program.
CAMPUS ADDRESS: C-220B Snyder Hall
PHONE: 517-884-1320
Email: aronoffe@msu.edu
Safoi Babana-Hampton
Safoi Babana-Hampton [Ph.D. Modern French, U. of Maryland] is an Associate Professor who teaches Francophone literatures and cultures in French, Classics, and Romance Languages. She has published Réflexions littéraires sur l’espace public marocain dans l’uvre d’Abdellatif Laâbi (2008) on the literary work of Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laabi, founder of the New Moroccan literature and advocate of cultural renewal in the 1960s. Her interests include contemporary Judeo-Maghrebi literatures, Beur (Franco-Maghrebi) literature and the relations between Maghrebi literatures and the other arts. She is working on a new study about perceptions of citizenship in the literary and autobiographical narratives by Maghrebi and Franco-Maghrebi women writers, across class, culture, and religious differences.
CAMPUS ADDRESS: B-461 Wells Hall
PHONE: 517-884-6311
EMAIL: babanaha@msu.edu
Gerard Breitzer
Gerard Breitzer [D.O., Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine] is Professor of Pediatrics; Department of Pediatrics, in the MSU
Salt Water Review
I put down Laura Johanna Braverman’s poetry collection, Salt Water, and lay in bed thinking, “Is it possible for something to be contrived and honest at the same time?”
This book touched me greatly. I cried many cathartic tears with her as I lived, through her words, an experience of immigration that is familiar to me, and will be familiar to so many others. Braverman writes, “I realise/ in the strange, simple way an insight/ that should have been obvious/ all along suddenly ripens/ and drops from the tree:/ I am the fruit of exile”, and I nod, having realised the same thing in the same way not long ago myself.
Braverman takes us on a nauseating-nostalgic journey, carried by an underlying theme of water, but with a broken fluidity. She splits her story into five discrete parts: California, Salzburg, London, Beirut, and Elsewhere. In each of these sections, poems about a vast range of topics, written in very different styles, are put side by side. For example, “Iris Immortal”, which opens with the mystical lines “I glide/ along an arc of light, soar/ to land from heaven’s eye”, sits next to, “337, 26th Street”, which as the title suggests, unlike its neighbour, is a poem very much grounded in physical space and time, describing how “Billie Burke lived in our house before we did./ So I was a girl with certain rights to the Good Witch/ of the North”. The entire book is curated like a collage in this way, and the result is a scrapbook of Braverman’s different selves. It is this broken fluidity that to me, both makes and breaks Braverman’s writing.
When I first received this book to review, the title “Salt Water” and the foreword which told me that Laura, “doesn’t simply write of things, but seeks to lessen the gap between word and thing”, made me think I was about to float seamlessly on a transcendental body of work. I put the book next to Ursula Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching, which I keep on my bedside table, ready to