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Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia
Contemporary Actors and Practices
This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several...
Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union
Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change
Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences...
Hiob zwischen Selbstbezichtigung und Protest
Gedichte aus Mittelasien (19. bis 20. Jahrhundert)
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In mehreren Handschriften überliefert sind Ghasele und andere Gedichte von einem Dichter, der sich Ayyub (Hiob)...
Grenzgänge
Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat
Hudā Barakāt’s novels are complex and densely woven texts that focus on the obsessions and inner conflicts of their protagonists. The first monograph dealing with the Lebanese...
Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils
Kulturgeschichtliche Epochenwende in der Literatur der letzten irakisch-jüdischen Autoren
“Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils” is the first comprehensive German-language study of Iraqi-Jewish literature. It is also the first study on the subject to consider memoirs...
»Gott liebt das Handwerk«
Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala
The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by...
Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur
Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch
This anthology illustrates the literary work of the historical development of Georgia over the last 30 years for German readers. It includes in particular such works, which - to...
Crisis and Memory
The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative
This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of...
Palästinenser im arabischen Roman
Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988
In contemporary Arabic fiction from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan as well as in Palestinian exile novels, Palestinians are predominantly depicted as and judged in terms of being...