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Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780521331975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Author: Latifa Al-Zayyat
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1617971537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the story culminates in the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Gamal Abd al-Nasser's nationalization of the Canal led to a British, French, and Israeli invasion. Not only daring in her themes, Latifa al-Zayyat was also bold in her use of colloquial Arabic, and the novel contains some of the liveliest dialogue in modern Arabic literature. "Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness." Abdel Moneim Tallima "A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key." Ferial Ghazoul "Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers." Naguib Mahfouz
Author: Roger Allen
Publisher: New York : Ungar Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Starkey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0748696539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Author: Michelle Hartman
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1603293167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other--controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal the literature's richness, relevance, and power to anglophone students. Addressing the complications of translation head on, the volume interweaves such important issues such as gender, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the status of Arabic literature in world literature. Essays cover writers from the recent past, like Emile Habiby and Tayeb Salih; contemporary Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian literatures; and the literature of the nineteenth-century Nahda.
Author: J. Brugman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-10-16
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9004663037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1096
ISBN-13: 9780231132541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists."--Jacket.
Author: Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0307481484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary sons and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid the foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour; and Yusuf Idris, who embraced Egypt’s vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the Arab world’s finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koni’s tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir’s masterly story “Clocks Like Horses,” and the work of such women writers as Lebanon’s Hanan al-Shaykh and Morocco’s Leila Abouzeid.
Author: Salih J. Altoma
Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis indispensible guide to modern Arabic literature in English translation features not only a comprehensive bibliography but also chapters on fiction, drama, poetry, and autobiography, as well as a special chapter on Iraq's Arabic literature. By focusing on Najib Mahfuz, one of Arabic Literature's luminaries, and on poetry--a major, if not the major genre of the region-- Altoma assesses the progress made towards a wider reception of Arabic writing throughout the western world.
Author: Salih J. Altoma
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-10-14
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0810877066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data: o Translations that have appeared since 1950, as books or as individual items (poems, short stories, novel extracts, plays, diaries) in print-and non-print publications in Iraq and other Arab and English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. o Relevant studies and other secondary sources including selected reviews and author interviews, which cover Iraqi literature and writers. o The scope of displacement or dispersion of Iraqi writers, artists, and other intellectuals who have been uprooted and are now living in exile in Arab or other Western countries. By drawing attention to a largely overlooked but relevant and extensive literature accessible in English, this first of its kind book will serve as an invaluable guide to students of contemporary Iraq, modern Arabic literature, and other fields such as women's studies, postcolonial studies, third world literature, American-Arab/Muslim Relations, and Diaspora studies.
