Literature and nation in the Middle East / [electronic resource]
Suleiman, Yasir,editor.
Muhawi, Ibrahim,1937-editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
Arabic literature
Nationalism in literature.