Bandarshah

Bandarshah

Author: al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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A man visits a Sudanese village, decides to stay and becomes its spiritual leader. A study of the power of religion and a look at the message of the Koran.


Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih

Author: Waïl S. Hassan

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780815630371

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Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in which his work depicts the clashing of Arab ideologies - that is, questions of tradition, modernity, imperialism, gender and political authority.


Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Author: Ziad Elmarsafy

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-08-20

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0748655662

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This book will present close readings of three contemporary Arabic novelists - an Egyptian (Gamal Al-Ghitany), an Algerian (Taher Ouettar) and a Touareg Libyan (Ibrahim Al-Koni) - who have all turned to Sufism as a literary strategy aimed at negotiating i


State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa

State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa

Author: Tejumola Olaniyan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 025303017X

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How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture dynamic, senior scholars and emerging voices examine the intersections of the state, culture, and politics in postcolonial Africa in this lively and wide-ranging volume. The coverage here is continental and topics include literature, politics, philosophy, music, religion, theatre, film, television, sports, child trafficking, journalism, city planning, and architecture. Together, the essays provide an energetic and nuanced portrait of the cultural forms of politics and the political forms of culture in contemporary Africa.


Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature

Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature

Author: Don Johnston

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1793631336

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Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature is a fresh and needed intervention into the study of postcolonial literature and the postcolonial condition. Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health, and that great authors consequently are diagnosticians of their culture, can be applied to postcolonial literature. The methodology, however, goes beyond the Deleuzian approach and offers a rich synthesis of Deleuze and Guattari with a range of different frameworks including health and human rights issues, the capabilities approach of Sen and Nussbaum, and the quantitative formalism of Moretti. This book majorly seeks to combine the study of postcolonial literature (a field in which Deleuze and Guattari are often used) with social sciences and quantitative methods. The work is genuinely interdisciplinary and breaks new ground both for the study of postcolonial literature and applications of Deleuze and Guattari. It does this while maintaining a focus on 'health', broadly conceived in as an assemblage, in Deleuzian fashion.


Kenana Handbook Of Sudan

Kenana Handbook Of Sudan

Author: Hopkins.Peter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 1283

ISBN-13: 1136775250

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First published in 2007. The Kenana Handbook of Sudan is an authoritative and definitive book on Africa's largest country that captures and depicts all aspects of Sudan from its roots in ancient Nubia to its modem petroleum economy, current development under a stable and progressive political environment, and immense future possibilities. The Handbook provides a more complete and up-to-date account of Sudan than has ever been published before.


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.


The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G

Author: Saul Bernard Cohen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 4454

ISBN-13: 9780231145541

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A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.


The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

Author: Igor S. Zonn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 3642115241

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“The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia” is the second one in the new series of encyclo- dias about the seas of the former Soviet Union published by Springer-Verlag. The ?rst volume – “The Aral Sea Encyclopedia” was published by Springer in 2009. The series will be continued by “The Black Sea Encyclopedia” in 2010. Today the Caspian Sea is known to readers thanks to its oil and gas resources, sturgeon and caviar, signi?cant sea-level variations, socio-economic and political problems. The Caucasus and Central Asia (http://eurodialogue. org/?les/fckeditor_?les/Caspian-s- map2. png) vii viii Introduction For more than 250 years the Caspian Sea was shared by two states: Russia (the Soviet Union) and Persia (Iran). After the disintegration of the USSR in 1992, the new independent states of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have radically changed the political and economic situation in the region. In addition to Russia and Iran, who had determined the situation on the Caspian for a long period, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are now interested parties, beginning a new stage in the historical development of the Caspian region. This increase in the number of the Caspian legal entities from two to ?ve has given rise to a whole tangle of geopolitical, economic, international legal, ethnic and environmental problems, each of which demands its own approach and settlement mechanism.