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Post-Gibran anthology of new Arab American writing / edited by Munir Akash & Khaled Mattawa.
Van Pelt Library PS508.A67 P67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jusoor (Series) ; 11/12.
- Jusoor ; 11/12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Arab American authors.
- American literature.
- Arab Americans--Literary collections.
- Arab Americans.
- American literature--20th century.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 460 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- West Bethesda, Md. : Kitab ; Syracuse, NY : Distributed by Syracuse University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- A compilation of new and previously unpublished works that infuses new energy into the area of Arab American writing.
- Through poetry, fiction, essays, and drama, both seasoned and upcoming writers confront issues not previously addressed in Arab American writing. These unique cultural endeavors reveal the multileveled textures of the exiles of new Arab writing.
- Contents:
- The way back / Diana Abu-Jaber
- The day ; Aftermath ; The window's oven / Nuar Alsadir
- Innocent bystanders ; The origins of western love ; The Egyptian movie star / Samuel Hazo
- Sixty minutes ; Daughter of Arabs / Elmaz Abi Nader
- The lower organs of Beirut / Munir Akash
- Freeways and rest houses ; Ode to Mejnoon ; Gilgamesh / Khaled Mattawa
- New directions : Arab American writing at century's end ; Poppies ; Departure ; Seabones / Lisa Suhair Majaj
- The Bullet Collection / Patricia Sarrafian Ward
- No statues were built in the camp ; The love song of Ibrahim Abdelmadi ; Juxtaposition ; Soliloquy ; Request / Sharif S. Elmusa
- from My cancer journal / Evelyn Accad
- Long overdue / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Between words ; Inheritance ; We're history / David Williams
- Poetry as homeland ; A butterfly gaze ; Escape / Nathalie Handal
- Like a Christmas tree / Etel Adnan
- Is this devastation for me alone? ; The masks of the crane / Amira El-Zein
- The crane / Halim Barakat
- Ghost songs / Kathryn Abdul-Baki
- The blind beekeeper / Daniel Moore (Abdal Hayy)
- Remember Vaughn Monroe? / Evelyn Shakir
- Fraudulent acts ; From a distance born / Pauline Kaldas
- Picture us / Paula Haydar
- Hamza Aweiwi : a shoe salesman in Hebron ; The pregnancy ; Camp Dearborn / Hayan Charara
- Twentieth ode ; April 5/97 / Sekeena Shaben
- Poem for Countee Cullen ; Umar : an affirmation two hours later ; Gravity / Saladin Ahmed
- My body is not your battleground ; More than one way to break fast ; Read / Mohja Kahf
- Perfect gallows ; Saltimbanque ; The menaced ventriloquist / Walid Bitar
- Five minutes / Dunya Mikhail
- The scream 98 / Hasan Newash
- The lessons of Leila / Penny Johnson
- A tree with a dream / Salah El-Moncef
- Back in the black / Joe Geha
- Heifers and heroes ; October's daughter / Suheir Hammad
- There is no love here ; Every poem a prayer / Mechelle Zarou
- Ode 124 ; Gacela of the terrifying presence ; The hunt ; Without rhyme or reason ; To a lady ; Yazid to his father Moawiah / Nadia Benabid
- The Zaire / Sara Nadia Rashad
- Like a rain / Hakim Archletta
- Embers and ashes / Hisham Sharabi.
- Fragrance from the garden. We will choose Sophocles / Mahmoud Darwish
- The song of songs / Tawfiq Al-Hakim
- The shadow and the echo / Yusuf Habashi Al-Ashqar
- Mkhammas Mardûd in Lebanese Zajal / Adnan Haydar
- Taha Husain's failure / George Tarabishi
- In Mona's garden / Sarah Rogers.
- Notes:
- "A Jusoor book."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Post-Gibran anthology of new Arab American writing.
- ISBN:
- 9780965203135
- 0965203131
- OCLC:
- 42799931
- Publisher Number:
- 99969542761
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