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Arabic literature : postmodern perspectives / edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Andreas Pflitsch, Barbara Winckler.

Contributor(s): Neuwirth, Angelika | Pflitsch, Andreas | Winckler, BarbaraMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Undetermined Publication details: London : Saqi, 2010. Description: 505 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780863566943; 0863566944Uniform titles: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. English. Subject(s): Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismLOC classification: PJ7538 | .A7313 2010
Contents:
Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / Ines Kappert -- End of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Andreas Pflitsch -- Introduction / Angelika Neuwirth -- Divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Stefan Weidner -- Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / Andreas Pflitsch -- On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the "birth of the novel" in Lebanon / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Friederike Pannewick -- Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Angelika Neuwirth -- Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Susanne Enderwitz -- Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat's "open door" politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / Stephan Guth -- "This reality is deplorable" : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Andrea Haist -- Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Angelika Neuwirth -- Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi's de-mythologizing of history / Angelika Neuwirth -- Poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck -- Introduction / Andreas Pflitsch -- "From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection" : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe -- "I dream in no man's land" : Anton Shammas / Christian Szyska -- Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Osman Hajjar -- Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sľim Nassib / Christian Junge -- British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Andreas Pflitsch -- Forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- "So we are called Lebanese" : Rabih Alameddine on the unbearable lightness of being : nowhere at home / Andreas Pflitsch -- Desert as homeland and metaphor : reflections on the novels of the Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni / Hartmut Fh̃ndrich -- Surrealist trip to paradise and back : the Iraqui author Abdalqadir al-Janabi / Sibylla Krainick -- Introduction / Barbara WInckler -- Changing the sexes between utopia and heterotopia : Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child and The sacred night / Roland Spiller -- Androgyny as metaphor : Hoda Barakat and The stone of laughter / Barbara Winckler -- Transgression as program : on the novels of Rachid Boudjedra / Doris Ruhe -- Egyptian Don Quixote? : Salah Abd al-Sabur's rethinking of the Majnun-Layla paradigm / Angelika Neuwirth -- 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 / Christian Junge -- Transgressions, or the logic of the body : Mohamed Choukri's work : a fusing of eros, logos and politics / Özkan Ezli -- New Trojan War? : Venus Khoury-Ghata on sexuality and war / Monika Moster-Eichberger -- Beyond autobiography : under the sign of destruction : the first-person narrator in Alia Mamdouh's novel Naphtalene / Verena Klemm.
Review: "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.
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Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / Ines Kappert -- End of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Andreas Pflitsch -- Introduction / Angelika Neuwirth -- Divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Stefan Weidner -- Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / Andreas Pflitsch -- On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the "birth of the novel" in Lebanon / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Friederike Pannewick -- Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Angelika Neuwirth -- Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Susanne Enderwitz -- Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat's "open door" politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / Stephan Guth -- "This reality is deplorable" : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Andrea Haist -- Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Angelika Neuwirth -- Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi's de-mythologizing of history / Angelika Neuwirth -- Poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck -- Introduction / Andreas Pflitsch -- "From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection" : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe -- "I dream in no man's land" : Anton Shammas / Christian Szyska -- Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Osman Hajjar -- Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sľim Nassib / Christian Junge -- British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Andreas Pflitsch -- Forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- "So we are called Lebanese" : Rabih Alameddine on the unbearable lightness of being : nowhere at home / Andreas Pflitsch -- Desert as homeland and metaphor : reflections on the novels of the Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni / Hartmut Fh̃ndrich -- Surrealist trip to paradise and back : the Iraqui author Abdalqadir al-Janabi / Sibylla Krainick -- Introduction / Barbara WInckler -- Changing the sexes between utopia and heterotopia : Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child and The sacred night / Roland Spiller -- Androgyny as metaphor : Hoda Barakat and The stone of laughter / Barbara Winckler -- Transgression as program : on the novels of Rachid Boudjedra / Doris Ruhe -- Egyptian Don Quixote? : Salah Abd al-Sabur's rethinking of the Majnun-Layla paradigm / Angelika Neuwirth -- 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 / Christian Junge -- Transgressions, or the logic of the body : Mohamed Choukri's work : a fusing of eros, logos and politics / Özkan Ezli -- New Trojan War? : Venus Khoury-Ghata on sexuality and war / Monika Moster-Eichberger -- Beyond autobiography : under the sign of destruction : the first-person narrator in Alia Mamdouh's novel Naphtalene / Verena Klemm.

Originally published: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. Munich : edition text + kritik, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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