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Translating Libya : the modern Libyan short story / [compiled and translated by] Ethan Chorin.
Van Pelt Library PJ8236.5.E5 T73 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SOAS Middle East issues
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chorin, Ethan Daniel--Travel--Libya.
- Chorin, Ethan Daniel.
- Short stories, Arabic--Libya.
- Short stories, Arabic.
- Short stories, Arabic--Translations into English.
- Social conditions.
- Libya--Social conditions.
- Libya.
- Libya--Description and travel.
- Libya--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, Arabic.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Berkeley, Calif. : Saqi ; London : In association with London Middle East Institute SOAS, [2008]
- Summary:
- Part anthology and part travelogue, Translating Libya presents the country through the eyes of sixteen short story writers and one American diplomat. Intrigued by the apparent absence of 'place' in modern Libyan short fiction, Ethan Chorin resolved to track down and translate stories that specifically mention cities and landmarks in Libya.
- The stories trace the influence of the ancient Romans, the later Italian occupation and the current influx of foreign workers from Africa and further afield. The authors open a window on today's Libya - a rapidly urbanizing country with rich oil reserves, recently renewed diplomatic relations with the West and a nascent tourist industry based on its well-preserved ancient cities. This is a unique introduction to a country that has for some time been 'off the beaten path'.
- Contents:
- Putting 'Libya' Back in Libyan Short Fiction 15
- In Search of Stories 20
- Part 2 The Stories
- Stories from the East
- Benghazi and Environs 33
- The Good-Hearted Salt Seller / Sadiq Nayhoum 38
- Hotel Vienna / Wahbi Bouri 46
- The Luay and the Rain / Ramadan Abdalla Bukheit 54
- My Friends When I Die / Abdel Raziq Al-Mansuri 59
- The Yellow Rock / Saleh Saad Younis 62
- The Spontaneous Journey / Najwa Ben Shetwan 69
- The Mute / Abdullah Ali Al-Gazal 76
- Stories from the South
- The Sultan's Flotilla / Sadiq Nayhoum 95
- The Locusts / Ahmed Ibrahim Faigh 108
- From Door to Door / Maryam Salama 123
- Mill Road / Ahmed Mohammed Lannaizy 132
- Stories from the West
- Tripoli and the Old City 141
- Caesar's Return / Meftah Genaw 150
- The Castle and the Water / Ziad Ali 156
- The Old Hotel or Miloud and Rubina's Story / Kamel Maghur 159
- Tripoli Story / Lamia El-Makki 177
- Special Edition / Ali Mustapha Misrati 182
- Part 3 Interpreting the Stories
- On the Libyan Short Story 189
- Three Generations of Economic Shock 194
- Migration 198
- Minorities 204
- The Libyan Psyche 214
- Libyan Women: Moving Backwards, Forwards, or Looking for a Third Way? 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-238).
- ISBN:
- 9780863566479
- 0863566472
- OCLC:
- 180473614
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