London Saint Paul, Minn. : Saqi, 2010.
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- In English translated from the German.
- Originally published: Arabische Literatur, postmodern. Munich : edition text + kritik, 2004.
- Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed in an introductory essay, this volume provides a critical framework for Arabic literature, locating it alongside other contemporary world literature. The contributors argue that Arabic literature engages with the global postmodern condition without denying its own traditions. As such, Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives paves the way for an important cultural dialogue between East and West. This collection is ideal for students of Arabic and comparative literature and equally of interest to general readers. –P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Postmodernism : facets of a figure of thought / Ines Kappert — The end of illusions : on Arab postmodernism / Andreas Pflitsch — Introduction / Angelika Neuwirth — The divinity of the profane : representations of the divine in the poetry of Adonis / Stefan Weidner — Days of amber, city of saffron : Edwar al-Kharrat remembers and writes an unintended autobiography / Andreas Pflitsch — On the necessity of writing the present : Elias Khoury and the birth of the novel in Lebanon / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi — Historical memory in times of decline : Saadallah Wannous and rereading history / Friederike Pannewick — Linguistic temptations and erotic unveilings : Rashid al-Daif on language, love, war, and martyrdom / Angelika Neuwirth — Memories for the future : Abdelrahman Munif / Susanne Enderwitz — Authenticity as counter-strategy : fighting Sadat’s open door politics : Gamal al-Ghitani and The epistle of insights into the destinies / Stephan Guth — This reality is deplorable : the Egypt of Sonallah Ibrahim : between media representation and experienced everyday reality / Andrea Haist — Hebrew Bible and Arabic poetry : reclaiming Palestine as a homeland made of words : Mahmoud Darwish / Angelika Neuwirth — Traditions and counter-traditions in the land of the Bible : Emile Habibi’s de-mythologizing of history / Angelika Neuwirth — The poet of the Arabic short story : Zakariyya Tamir / Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck — Introduction / Andreas Pflitsch — From the Orient to the Occident it is just a reflection : the mirror-worlds of Habib Tengour / Regina Keil-Sagawe — I dream in no man’s land : Anton Shammas / Christian Szyska — Exile at home : Samir Naqqash, prophecy as poetics / Osman Hajjar — Reading the ruins : repressed memory and multiple identity in the work of Sélim Nassib / Christian Junge — British-Lebanese identity fallacies : Tony Hanania and a malady called homesickness / Andreas Pflitsch — The forbidden paradise : how Etel Adnan learnt to paint in Arabic / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi — So we a
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