Arabic-L:TRANS:Chic Lit

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1) Subject:Chic Lit

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Date: 07 Mar 2007
From:"Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Chic Lit

Chic Lit
        There is an inexhaustible list of lits: Eng Lit, Fr Lit, Comp  
Lit, Queer Lit &ct., and they come with their own baggage of  
terminology.   An engaging study on feminist fiction, entitled See  
Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick-lit, by Sarah Mlynowski  
and Farrin Jacobs, (Quirk Books, 2006),  introduces yet the new  
critical term: “Chic-Lit / Chic Lit.”  I wonder how to translate  
this term into Arabic.  Below are three attempts, and it is a matter  
of luck as to which of them obtains in Arabic critical jargon:
أدب الناشئات     ،  أدب البرابر     ،    
"كلام نواعم"
        The closest rendition of “Chic Lit” is (أدب  
البرابر).  There may well be some objection to the use of the  
colloquial Arabic term (برابر) for young chickens, the singular  
of which is /بربر = /birbir/, a typically Egyptian word borrowed  
from the Coptic language.  As for ("كلام نواعم"), it is a  
patented name of a weekly TV show on the Future channel, hosted by  
able women from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
     <><>  I'd expect my colleagues to have their own views of these  
Arabic equivalents or suggestions for more fitting alternatives.

*M. Deeb

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