Literature and nation in the Middle East / edited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suleiman, Yasir, editor.

Muhawi, Ibrahim, 1937- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Literature & Nation in the Middle East

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A unique look at how ‘the nation’ is represented in the literature of the Middle East, this book provides a compelling study of the construction of the nation in literary production from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contents:

The production of locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel / Nadia Yaqub

Irony and the poetics of Palestinian exile / Ibrahim Muhawi

Gender and the Palestinian narrative of return in two novels by Ghassan Kanafani / Amy Zalman

Darwish's 'Indian speech' as dramatic performance : sacred space and transformation / J. Kristen Urban

Israeli Jewish nation building and Hebrew translations of Arabic literature / Hannah Amit-Kochavi

Between myth and history : Moshe Shamir's He walked in the fields / Shai Ginsberg

Writing the nation : the emergence of Egypt in the modern Arabic novel / Jeff Shalan

Arabic poetry, nationalism and social change : Sudanese colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Heather J. Sharkey

Marginal literatures of the Middle East / Peter Clark

The predicament of in-betweenness in the contemporary Lebanese exilic novel in English / Syrine C. Hout

The nation speaks : on the poetics of nationalist literature / Yasir Suleiman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5310-4

1-280-76238-1

9786610762385

0-7486-2644-1

OCLC:

476039589