Latin American and Arab Literature : transcontinental exchanges / Tahia Abdel Nasser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdel Nasser, Tahia Khaled, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Spanish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Latin America--Relations--Arab countries.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Since the nineteenth-century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes - and in the late twentieth-century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties. She also explores how a new cadre of men of letters - poets, writers and intellectuals - shaped Arab Latin American encounters in the late twentieth-century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: Cultural Exchange between Latin America and the Arab World

1 Transcontinental Literature: Gabriel García Márquez and Héctor Abad Faciolince

2 The African Shore: Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Alberto Ruy Sánchez in Morocco

3 Children of Scheherazade: Gabriel García Márquez in Arabic

4 Che Guevara's Diaries, Miguel Littín's Adventures: Latin American Iconography in Arabic Literature

5 Dreams of Jorge Luis Borges, Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes: Arabic and World Literature

Epilogue: The Legacy of Transcontinental Ties

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781399507158

139950715X

9781399507141

1399507141

OCLC:

1368053411