Critical Perspectives on Yusuf Idris
Author: Roger Allen
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780894106712
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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780894106712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Craig W. McLuckie
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780894107696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poet, activist, teacher, and scholar, Dennis Brutus is an influential figure in African literature. Exploring his life and writings, this volume looks at Brutus's childhood, university days, his arrest and imprisonment, and his eventual return to South Africa in 1991.
Author: Trevor Le Gassick
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780894106590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Issa J. Boullata
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: D. Cohen-Mor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1137335203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families.
Author: Richard Jacquemond
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789774161018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Artfully combining social and literary history, this unique study explores the dual loyalties of contemporary Egyptian authors from the 1952 Revolution to the present day. Egypt's writers have long had an elevated idea of their social mission, considering themselves 'the conscience of the nation.' At the same time, modern Egyptian writers work under the liberal conception of the writer borrowed from the European model. As a result, each Egyptian writer treads the tightrope between authority and freedom, social commitment and artistic license, loyalty to the state and to personal expression, in an ongoing quest for an elusive literary ideal. With these fundamentals in mind, Conscience of the Nation examines Egyptian literary production over the past fifty years, surveying works by established writers, as well as those of dozens of other authors who are celebrated in Egypt but whose writings are largely unknown to the foreign reader. Novelists and poets, scriptwriters and playwrights, critics and journalists all have battled with and tried to resolve the tensions inherent in the conflicting forces of self and society.
Author: Omar Khalifah
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474410219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.
Author: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441150633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thought-experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its now-unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age.
Author: Lisa Marchi
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0815655479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and regions, this volume illuminates the distinct artistic voice of each poet, yet also highlights the aesthetic and political relevance that unites their work. Marchi explores the work of Naomi Shihab Nye, a celebrated American poet of Palestinian descent; Iman Mersal, an Egyptian poet living in Edmonton, Canada, who writes in Arabic; Nadine Ltaif, a Lebanese poet who lives in Quebec and has adopted French as her language; Maram al-Massri, a Syrian poet writing in Arabic and living in France; Suheir Hammad, an American poet of Palestinian origin; and Mina Boulhanna, a Moroccan poet living in Italy and writing in Italian. Despite their varying geographical and political backgrounds, these poets find common ground in themes of injustice, spirituality, gender, race, and class. Drawing upon the concept of tension, Marchi examines both the breaking points and the creative energies that traverse the poetic works of these writers. These celebrated funambulists use their art of balance and flexibility bolstered by their courage and transgression to walk a tightrope stretched out across cultures, faiths, and nations.