Literaturen im Kontext. arabisch – persisch – türkisch

Sehnsucht nach Sinn

Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenössischen türkischen Roman

Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the...

Geschichten über Geschichten

Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Ilyas Huri

Elias Khoury (b. 1948) is one of the most outstanding figures in Lebanon’s cultural, intellectual and literary life today. The study focuses on the theme of memory in Khoury’s...

Arabischer Surrealismus im Exil

Der irakische Dichter und Publizist Abd al-Qadir al-Ganabi

Even after three decades of Parisian exile, the Iraqi poet and publicist ͑Abd al-Qādir al-Ganabi (Abdul Kader El Janabi) (b. 1944) still deserves greater attention in the West,...

Die Macht der Darstellung

Gender, sozialer Status, historiographische Re-Präsentation: Zwei Frauenbiographien aus der frühen Abbasidenzeit

͑Ulayya bint al-Mahdī (160−210/ 777−825), the younger sister of the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, and ͑Arīb (181−277/ 797−890), a first enslaved, later manumitted woman, are...

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...

Der ägyptische Roman

Rezeption und Wertung von den Anfängen bis 1945

Beginning in the 1820s, the decade Egyptians were first able to read a European novel, this study traces the process through which the novel subsequently established itself and...

Gegenwelten

Zur Literaturtheorie Idwar al-Harrats

The Egyptian novelist, short story writer and literary critic Idwār al-Kharrāṭ (b. 1926) is one of the most influential contemporary authors in the Arab world. This first...

Das Wagnis Tradition

Arabische Wege der Theatralität

“There is no independent Arab theatre; the Arabs adopted this genre from Europe.” For a long time this was the predominant thesis in Europe and the Arab world. But what is theatre...

Understanding Near Eastern Literatures

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Near Eastern Literatures and participates in their ongoing dialogue with literary theory. It presents 19 different readings of...