The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction

The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction

Author: Matti Moosa

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780894106842

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Moosa's exhaustive discussion, demonstrating the influence of both Western and Islamic ideology and culture, presents many works of fiction for the first time to Western students of Arabic literature.


The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

Author: Denys Johnson-Davies

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 0307481484

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This 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.


Modern Arabic Fiction

Modern Arabic Fiction

Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1096

ISBN-13: 9780231132541

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Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the personal and historical experiences of modern Arabs. This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers' formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian experience in modern times. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early twentieth century Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics were eye-openers for generations of Arab readers to the achievements of medieval Islamic civilization; Yusuf Idris's complex and brilliant portrait of Egypt's poor; 'Abd al-Rahman Muneef's searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's sophisticated description of the dilemma's of modern Arab intellectuals; and Jamal al-Ghitani's impressive employment of mythical time and the continuity of the past in the present. Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial and illuminating introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists.


Modern Arabic Literature

Modern Arabic Literature

Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9780521331975

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This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.


The Arabic Novel

The Arabic Novel

Author: Roger Allen

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780815626411

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This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.


Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation

Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation

Author: Michelle Hartman

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1603293167

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Understanding 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.


Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel

Author: Hoda Elsadda

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0748669205

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A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt.


Contemporary Arab Fiction

Contemporary Arab Fiction

Author: Fabio Caiani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1134121709

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This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Relying on literary theory and referring to comparative examples from other literatures, this study places its findings within a wider framework, defining what is meant by innovation in the Arabic novel, and the particular socio-political context in which it appears.