Literature and nation in the Middle East/ 
edited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  c2006. 
 - vii, 264 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Literature and Nation in the Middle East: An Overview <br/>Yasir Suleiman<br/><br/>1.  The Production of Locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel<br/>Nadia Yaqub<br/><br/>2.  Irony and the Poetics of Palestinian Exile<br/>Ibrahim Muhawi<br/><br/>3.  Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani<br/>Amy Zalman <br/><br/>4.  Darwish's 'Indian Speech' as Dramatic Performance: Sacred Space and Transformation <br/>J. Kristen Urban<br/><br/>5.  Israeli Jewish Nation Building and Hebrew Translations of Arabic Literature<br/>Hannah Amit Kochavi<br/><br/>6.  Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir's He Walked in the Fields<br/>Shai Ginsburg<br/><br/>7.  Writing the Nation: The Emergence of Egypt in the Modem Arabic Novel<br/>Jeff Shalan<br/><br/>8.  Arabic Poetry, Nationalism and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives<br/>Heather J. Sharkey <br/><br/>9.  Marginal Literatures of the Middle East <br/>Peter Clark<br/><br/>10.  The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel in English<br/>Syrine C. Hout<br/><br/>11. The Nation Speaks: On the Poetics of Nationalist Literature<br/>Yasir Suleiman 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0748620737 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic literature.<br/>History and criticism.<br/>Nationalism in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.7  / SUL/L