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Arabic literature
In cooperation with: Albers, Yvonne
Commitment and Beyond
Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s
This book is about relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in...
Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art
Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan
Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book...
People from the Desert
Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture
“People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture” provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and...
Arabic Minimalist Story
Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era
One of the major aims of this book is to characterize the Arabic minimalist story as a newly established genre of narrative fiction that exploits a host of “austere” techniques in...
Reflections on Reflections
Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature
This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures in general and Arabic...
The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish
A Comparative Study
A comparative analysis of the work of the South African poet Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) and the Palestinian poet Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1942-2008), this study aims to demonstrate how a...