Muna Jabbur

Muna Jabbur (Arabic: منى جبر‎, born 1942 - died 1964) was a Lebanese novelist. Alongside her contemporary Layla Balabakki, she was regarded as one of the pioneering vanguards shaping the literary culture scene of Beirut in the 1960s.[1]

Biography

Born in the Akkar District of Lebanon, Jabbur authored the novel Fatah tafiha (Silly Girl) in 1962. The book explores the life of a young woman called Nada who experiences depression due to her father's attempts to indoctrinate her into traditional womanhood, against the backdrop of a modernizing Beirut.[2][3] In 1964, she committed suicide at the age of 22.[4] Her second novel al-Ghirban wa-l-musub al-bayda (The Ravens and the White Gowns') was published posthumously in 1966.[4]

References
  1. "Pioneering Women in Palestinian Art" (PDF). Hagar Gallery. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. Zeidan, Joseph T.; Zayd?n, J?z?f (1995). Arab Women Novelists: The Formative Years and Beyond. SUNY Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-7914-2171-0. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. Al-Masri, Khaled (2010). Telling Stories of Pain: Women Writing Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Novel of the Lebanese Civil War (PhD). University of Michigan. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.472.8567.
  4. ʻĀshūr, Raḍwá; Ghazoul, Ferial Jabouri; Reda-Mekdashi, Hasna; McClure, Mandy (2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
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