Jeanne Arcache
Jeanne Arcache (Arabic: جان اركاش, 1902–1961) is a pioneer Lebanese Francophone poet, novelist, and journalist, who wrote for French-language periodicals in Egypt.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Arcache was born in 1902 in Alexandria to a Lebanese father and a French mother. She attended the Lycée Française in her native city and pursued an education in literature and music.[3] Arcache wrote for several journals in Egypt, most notably the weekly Image,[1] La Semaine Egyptienne,[4] and the monthly La Revue du Caire.[1] She was a member of La société des auteurs libanais de langue française (The Society of French-speaking Lebanese Authors) which included leading authors such as Michel Chiha, Michel Talhamé, Georges Schéhadé, Emile Cousa, Alfred Naccache, Eveline Bustros, and Blanche Amoun; all Christian Lebanese nationalists.[5]
Arcache's literary career was influenced by Alexandria-based Lady Weissenborn, a German author and painter, and the Swiss poet Jacques-René Fiechter, a university professor and director of the Swiss School of Alexandria de (Ecole suisse d'Alexandrie).[6] Arcache was a pentalingual cosmopolite; she traveled extensively in Europe, and visited France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.[7]
In 1945, she married Charles Kuentz, who headed the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale.[1] She died in France in 1961.[8]
Published works[edit]
- L'Egypte dans mon miroir (poetry -1931)
- La chambre haute (poetry - 1933)
- L'Emir à la croix (novel - 1938)[1]
- Les chêvres d'Abou Soliman (novel - 1953)[9]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e ʻĀshūr et al. 2008, p. 153.
- ^ Najjar 2014, p. 174.
- ^ Luthi 1981.
- ^ Bardaouil 2016, p. 363.
- ^ Kaufman 2014, p. 238.
- ^ Luthi 1981, p. 56.
- ^ Gorman & Irving 2020, p. 148.
- ^ Haddad 2000, p. 248.
- ^ Kassem 2005.
Sources[edit]
- 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. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9.
- Bardaouil, Sam (2016). Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78672-163-1.
- Gorman, Anthony; Irving, Sarah (2020). Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought and Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7556-0630-6.
- Haddad, Katia (2000). La littérature francophone du Machrek: anthologie critique [The Francophone literature of the Mashreq: A Critical anthology] (in French). Presses de l'Université Saint-Joseph. ISBN 978-9953-9002-1-6.
- Kassem, Mahmud (2005). "أديبات عربيات يكتبن بالفرنسية - غريبات في اللغة غريبات في الجغرافيا" [Arab Francophone women writers - Strangers in language, aliens in geography]. Al-Katiba. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- Kaufman, Asher (2014). Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85773-602-4.
- Luthi, Jean-Jacques (1981). Le francais en Egypte: essai d'anthologie [The French language in Egypt: an anthology essay] (in French). Maison Naaman pour la Culture.
- Najjar, Alexandre (2014). Dictionnaire amoureux du Liban (in French). Place des éditeurs. ISBN 978-2-259-22983-8.