The experimental Arabic novel
Subtitle: postcolonial literary modernism in the Levant
By: Stefan G. Meyer.
Series: SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Arab countries
Description: "The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved with a different set of characteristics, depending upon the nature of their historical antecedents.

This approach to postcolonial literature offers a way to compare and contrast it meaningfully with Western literature without relying on inherently Western literary models."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and index.