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Literature and nation in the Middle East/ edited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi.

Contributor(s): Suleiman, Yasir | Muhawi, IbrahimMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006Description: vii, 264 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0748620737 (hbk.)Subject(s): Arabic literature | History and criticism | Nationalism in literatureDDC classification: 892.7

Contents:

Introduction: Literature and Nation in the Middle East: An Overview Yasir Suleiman 1. The Production of Locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel Nadia Yaqub 2. Irony and the Poetics of Palestinian Exile Ibrahim Muhawi 3. Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani Amy Zalman 4. Darwish's 'Indian Speech' as Dramatic Performance: Sacred Space and Transformation J. Kristen Urban 5. Israeli Jewish Nation Building and Hebrew Translations of Arabic Literature Hannah Amit Kochavi 6. Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir's He Walked in the Fields Shai Ginsburg 7. Writing the Nation: The Emergence of Egypt in the Modem Arabic Novel Jeff Shalan 8. Arabic Poetry, Nationalism and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives Heather J. Sharkey 9. Marginal Literatures of the Middle East Peter Clark 10. The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel in English Syrine C. Hout 11. The Nation Speaks: On the Poetics of Nationalist Literature Yasir Suleiman

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	892.7 SUL/L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P04543

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-256) and index.

Introduction: Literature and Nation in the Middle East: An Overview
Yasir Suleiman

1. The Production of Locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel
Nadia Yaqub

2. Irony and the Poetics of Palestinian Exile
Ibrahim Muhawi

3. Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani
Amy Zalman

4. Darwish's 'Indian Speech' as Dramatic Performance: Sacred Space and Transformation
J. Kristen Urban

5. Israeli Jewish Nation Building and Hebrew Translations of Arabic Literature
Hannah Amit Kochavi

6. Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir's He Walked in the Fields
Shai Ginsburg

7. Writing the Nation: The Emergence of Egypt in the Modem Arabic Novel
Jeff Shalan

8. Arabic Poetry, Nationalism and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives
Heather J. Sharkey

9. Marginal Literatures of the Middle East
Peter Clark

10. The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel in English
Syrine C. Hout

11. The Nation Speaks: On the Poetics of Nationalist Literature
Yasir Suleiman

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