Commitment and Beyond

Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s

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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 Arabic literature in recent modern history. It examines historical and …

People from the Desert

Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture

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“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 literature of the pre-Islamic period. It presents detailed studies of the poetry of Imruʼl-Qays, al-Shanfara, …

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

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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 aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern studies and, at …

Arabic Minimalist Story

Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era

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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 order to present a variety of socio-political issues. Believing …

Reflections on Reflections

Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature

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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 literature in particular. Arabic Studies are continuously confronted with powerful traditions and notions of …

The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish

A Comparative Study

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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 conflict of voices in their poetry emerged and developed across four stages, …