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

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
  • 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

Citations
  1. ʻĀshūr et al. 2008, p. 153.
  2. Najjar 2014, p. 174.
  3. Luthi 1981.
  4. Bardaouil 2016, p. 363.
  5. Kaufman 2014, p. 238.
  6. Luthi 1981, p. 56.
  7. Gorman & Irving 2020, p. 148.
  8. Haddad 2000, p. 248.
  9. Kassem 2005.

Sources
  • 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.
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