Teaching modern Arabic literature in translation / edited by Michelle Hartman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Michelle, editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 42.

Options for teaching ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--Translations.

Translations.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Summary:

Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other-controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal to anglophone students the literature's richness, relevance, and power. Addressing the complications of translation head on, the volume interweaves such important issues as gender, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the status of Arabic literature in world literature. Essays cover writers from the recent past, like Emile Habiby and Tayeb Salih; contemporary Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian literatures; and the literature of the nineteenth-century Nahda. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: why theory, politics, and ethics matter / Michelle Hartman

Situated literatures: history, current events and the politics of teaching Arabic literature. Arabic literature and world literature / Ken Seigneurie

Untranslatability, discomfort, ideology: should we teach Arabic literature / Stephen Sheehi

Teaching (beyond) the conflict: a contrapuntal reading / Philip Metres

Teaching scandals: gender and translation in the Arabic literature classroom / Michelle Hartman

Engaging the canon in modern Arabic literature in translation: cosmopolitan reading in the nahda / Rebecca C. Johnson

The joke's on me: teaching Emile Habiby's The pessoptomist in translation / Maya Kesrouany

Arabic poetics through a canonical translation: teaching Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north / Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Teaching modern Arabic literature in translation in Middle Tennessee / Allan Hibbard

Comparative contexts, youth culture, new media. Youth culture in the Arab world: explorations through literature in translation / Caroline Seymour-Jorn

Teaching new Egyptian writing: experimental style in Arabic and the undergraduate reader / Mara Naaman

Syrian literature after 2000: publics, mobilities, revolt / Anne-Marie McManus

Teaching Arabic literature in open spaces / Lynx Qualey

Selected Arabic literary works in English.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching modern Arabic literature in translation.

ISBN:

9781603293143

1603293140

9781603293150

1603293159

OCLC:

978601784