Literature and nation in the Middle East

A unique look at how ‘the nation’ is represented in the literature of the Middle East, this book provides a compelling study of the construction of the nation in literary production from an interdisciplinary perspective

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Weitere Verfasser: Suleiman, Yasir (HerausgeberIn), Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2006
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The production of locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel / Nadia Yaqub
  • Irony and the poetics of Palestinian exile / Ibrahim Muhawi
  • Gender and the Palestinian narrative of return in two novels by Ghassan Kanafani / Amy Zalman
  • Darwish's 'Indian speech' as dramatic performance : sacred space and transformation / J. Kristen Urban
  • Israeli Jewish nation building and Hebrew translations of Arabic literature / Hannah Amit-Kochavi
  • Between myth and history : Moshe Shamir's He walked in the fields / Shai Ginsberg
  • Writing the nation : the emergence of Egypt in the modern Arabic novel / Jeff Shalan
  • Arabic poetry, nationalism and social change : Sudanese colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Heather J. Sharkey
  • Marginal literatures of the Middle East / Peter Clark
  • The predicament of in-betweenness in the contemporary Lebanese exilic novel in English / Syrine C. Hout
  • The nation speaks : on the poetics of nationalist literature / Yasir Suleiman