Arabic literature :
Arabic literature : postmodern perspectives / edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Andreas Pflitsch, Barbara Winckler. - London : Saqi, 2010. - 505 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. Munich : edition text + kritik, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / End of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Introduction / Divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the "birth of the novel" in Lebanon / Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat's "open door" politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / "This reality is deplorable" : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi's de-mythologizing of history / Poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Introduction / "I dream in no man's land" : Anton Shammas / Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sľim Nassib / British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / "So we are called Lebanese" : Rabih Alameddine on the unbearable lightness of being : nowhere at home / Desert as homeland and metaphor : reflections on the novels of the Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni / Surrealist trip to paradise and back : the Iraqui author Abdalqadir al-Janabi / Introduction / Changing the sexes between utopia and heterotopia : Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child and The sacred night / Androgyny as metaphor : Hoda Barakat and The stone of laughter / Transgression as program : on the novels of Rachid Boudjedra / Egyptian Don Quixote? : Salah Abd al-Sabur's rethinking of the Majnun-Layla paradigm / On writing in the "language of the enemy" : Assia Djebar and the buried voices of Algerian history -- Barbara Winckler -- I write, therefore I am : Metafiction as self-assertion in Mustafa Dhikri's Much ado about a gothic labyrinth / Transgressions, or the logic of the body : Mohamed Choukri's work : a fusing of eros, logos and politics / New Trojan War? : Venus Khoury-Ghata on sexuality and war / Beyond autobiography : under the sign of destruction : the first-person narrator in Alia Mamdouh's novel Naphtalene / Ines Kappert -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Stefan Weidner -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Friederike Pannewick -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Susanne Enderwitz -- Stephan Guth -- Andrea Haist -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck -- Andreas Pflitsch -- "From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection" : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe -- Christian Szyska -- Osman Hajjar -- Christian Junge -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Hartmut Fh̃ndrich -- Sibylla Krainick -- Barbara WInckler -- Roland Spiller -- Barbara Winckler -- Doris Ruhe -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Christian Junge -- Özkan Ezli -- Monika Moster-Eichberger -- Verena Klemm.
"Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed in an introductory essay, this volume provides a critical framework for Arabic literature, locating it alongside other contemporary world literature." "The contributors argue that Arabic literature engages with the global postmodern condition without denying its own traditions. As such, Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives paves the way for an important cultural dialogue between East and West." "This collection is ideal for students of Arabic and comparative literature and equally of interest to general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
9780863566943 0863566944
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PJ7538 / .A7313 2010
Originally published: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. Munich : edition text + kritik, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / End of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Introduction / Divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the "birth of the novel" in Lebanon / Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat's "open door" politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / "This reality is deplorable" : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi's de-mythologizing of history / Poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Introduction / "I dream in no man's land" : Anton Shammas / Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sľim Nassib / British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / "So we are called Lebanese" : Rabih Alameddine on the unbearable lightness of being : nowhere at home / Desert as homeland and metaphor : reflections on the novels of the Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni / Surrealist trip to paradise and back : the Iraqui author Abdalqadir al-Janabi / Introduction / Changing the sexes between utopia and heterotopia : Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child and The sacred night / Androgyny as metaphor : Hoda Barakat and The stone of laughter / Transgression as program : on the novels of Rachid Boudjedra / Egyptian Don Quixote? : Salah Abd al-Sabur's rethinking of the Majnun-Layla paradigm / On writing in the "language of the enemy" : Assia Djebar and the buried voices of Algerian history -- Barbara Winckler -- I write, therefore I am : Metafiction as self-assertion in Mustafa Dhikri's Much ado about a gothic labyrinth / Transgressions, or the logic of the body : Mohamed Choukri's work : a fusing of eros, logos and politics / New Trojan War? : Venus Khoury-Ghata on sexuality and war / Beyond autobiography : under the sign of destruction : the first-person narrator in Alia Mamdouh's novel Naphtalene / Ines Kappert -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Stefan Weidner -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Friederike Pannewick -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Susanne Enderwitz -- Stephan Guth -- Andrea Haist -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck -- Andreas Pflitsch -- "From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection" : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe -- Christian Szyska -- Osman Hajjar -- Christian Junge -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Andreas Pflitsch -- Hartmut Fh̃ndrich -- Sibylla Krainick -- Barbara WInckler -- Roland Spiller -- Barbara Winckler -- Doris Ruhe -- Angelika Neuwirth -- Christian Junge -- Özkan Ezli -- Monika Moster-Eichberger -- Verena Klemm.
"Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed in an introductory essay, this volume provides a critical framework for Arabic literature, locating it alongside other contemporary world literature." "The contributors argue that Arabic literature engages with the global postmodern condition without denying its own traditions. As such, Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives paves the way for an important cultural dialogue between East and West." "This collection is ideal for students of Arabic and comparative literature and equally of interest to general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
9780863566943 0863566944
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PJ7538 / .A7313 2010