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Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198265429 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198265429 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
Author: Denys Johnson-Davies Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307481484 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 508
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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.
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231132541 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 1096
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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.
Author: Ragai N. Makar Publisher: Scarecrow Area Bibliographies ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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Once largely marginalized, Arabic literature is enjoying an increase in attention. This bibliography lists 2,548 titles, covering all genres of literature, including ballads, comedy, drama, fiction, poetry, and prisoner writings, and encompassing Israeli, Islamic, and Mahjar literature. Works are listed from every Arabic country. Most titles are in English, with some in French and Arabic. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: David Tresilian Publisher: Saqi ISBN: 0863568025 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 162
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Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the modern Arab world, Europe's closest neighbour, is not so far from us as we are sometimes encouraged to think. A timely contribution to the dialogue between East and West, bringing modern Arabic literature into the mainstream for English-speaking readers. 'Tresilian's book is not only informative about its subject but also provides thought-provoking messages to the general reader.' -- Denys Johnson Davies Banipal
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
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