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Kahlil Gibran : beyond borders
\"A comprehensive biography of the life of artist-poet Kahlil Gibran and his development as an artist transcending geographical boundaries of East and West--includes many rare photographs and images of his work\"-- Provided by publisher
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English
Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this companion spans from the first Arab novel in 1911 to the resurgence of the Anglo-Arabic novel in the last 20 years. There are chapters on authors such as Ameen Rihani, Ahdaf Soueif and Waguih Ghali, and interviews with Laila Lalami, Hisham Matar and Fadia Faqir.
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Literary autobiography and Arab national struggles
In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures. Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.
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Men, Women, and Gods
Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil, El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Arab community for her unforgettable female heroes and explosive narratives, which boldly address sexual violence, female circumcision, theology, and other politically charged themes. Her outspoken feminism and critique of patriarchy have also earned her the wrath of repressive forces in the Middle East. Imprisoned in her native Egypt under Sadat, El Saadawi is now among those on the death lists of Islamic religious conservatives. In Men, Women, and God(s) Fedwa Malti-Douglas makes the work of this important but little-understood writer truly accessible. Contending that El Saadawi's texts cannot be read in isolation from their Islamic and Arabic heritage, Malti-Douglas draws upon a deep knowledge of classical and modern Arabic textual traditions--and on extensive conversations with Nawal El Saadawi--to place the writer within her cultural and historical context. With this impassioned and radical exegesis of El Saadawi's prolific output, Malti-Douglas has written a crucial study of one of the most controversial and influential writers of our time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
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Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics
N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.
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Arabic Disclosures
Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a
comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical
writing.
In Arabic Disclosures Muhsin J. al-Musawi investigates
the genre of autobiography within the modern tradition of Arabic
literary writing from the early 1920s to the present. Al-Musawi
notes in the introduction that the purpose of this work is not to
survey the entirety of autobiographical writing in modern Arabic
but rather to apply a rigorously identified set of characteristics
and approaches culled from a variety of theoretical studies of the
genre to a particular set of autobiographical works in Arabic,
selected for their different methodologies, varying historical
contexts within which they were conceived and written, and the
equally varied lives experienced by the authors involved.
The book begins in the larger context of autobiographical space,
where the theories of Bourdieu, Bachelard, Bakhtin, and Lefebvre
are laid out, and then considers the multiple ways in which a
postcolonial awareness of space has impacted the writings of many
of the authors whose works are examined. Organized chronologically,
al-Musawi begins with the earliest modern example of
autobiographical work in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn's book, translated into
English as The Stream of Days . Al-Musawi studies some of
the major pioneers in the development of modern Arabic thought and
literary expression: Jurjī Zaydān, Mīkḫāˀīl Nuˁaymah, Aḥmad Amīn,
Salāmah Mūsā, Sayyid Quṭb, and untranslated works by the prominent
critic and scholar Ḥammādī Ṣammūd, the novelist ʿĀliah Mamdūḥ, and
others. He also examines the autobiographies of a number of women,
including Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī and Fadwā Ṭūqān, and fiction writers.
The book draws a map of Arab thought and culture in its multiple
engagements with other cultures and will be useful for scholars and
students of comparative literature, Arabic studies, and Middle
Eastern studies, intellectual thought, and history.
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