History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia

Contemporary Actors and Practices

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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 disciplines literary studies, history, anthropology, area studies in an attempt …

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

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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 in the twentieth century, enabling the reader to gain deep insights into the varied …

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) nennt. Sie sind in einer Form des späten Tschaghataisch verfasst und werden im mittelasiatischen Choresm gern von Frauen gelesen, die eine Ausbildung als Vorleserin …

Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

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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 author’s work, this book presents in-depth analyses of her first three novels, each …

Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils

Kulturgeschichtliche Epochenwende in der Literatur der letzten irakisch-jüdischen Autoren

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“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 written after 2003 as well as novels published by Iraqi Muslim authors, and offers …

»Gott liebt das Handwerk«

Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala

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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 drawing on oral and written sources.

Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur

Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch

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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 an extent in terms of a historical balancing act - discuss …

Crisis and Memory

The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative

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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 the state of Israel and its continuing aftermath, to the Suez …

Palästinenser im arabischen Roman

Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988

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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 representatives of the Palestinian collective. They frequently appear on the scene as guerilla …