Literary disinheritance
Subtitle: the writing of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar
By: Najat Rahman.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780739120071
Subjects: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd -- Criticism and interpretation; Djebar, Assia, -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-128) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the writing of home through literary heritage; title: Revisiting a heritage of dispossession. The trial of heritage and the legacy of Abraham; title: Reclaiming an Islamic legacy of memory and contestation in Assia Djebar's Loin de Médine; title: Poetic survival : post-Beirut poetry of Mahmoud Darwish; title: The reconstitution of home through language. The language of home and the fragmented heritage : Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia; title: Writing absence : language, rhythm, and temporality in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish; title: Afterword.