arabic literature

An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous treatment a young wife receives from the man to whom she has been married. These are some of the themes of the twenty-four stories in this volume, each by a different author and rendered into English by one of the finest translators of Arabic fiction. Among the authors represented are Edward El-Kharrat, Bahaa Taher, Alifa Rifaat, and Ghassan Kanafani. Through the eyes of insiders, these stories show us the intimate texture of life throughout the diverse countries and cultures of the Arabic world.

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Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.

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Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through thirst, disease, lust, and loneliness. Alone in the desert, haunted by the prophetic cave paintings of ancient hunting scenes and the cries of jinn in the night, Ukhayyad awaits the arrival of his pursuers and their insatiable hunger for blood and gold. Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.

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All of the North African artists discussed in this book have been influenced substantially by their immersion in French culture. All rely on the French language as their preferred medium for artistic expression. As such, these creative individuals are enmeshed in one of the central dilemmas postcolonial “non-Western” artists who express themselves in non-indigenous languages can face: how to use essentially “foreign” means to express an “authentic” vision of their own cultural inheritances and imperatives? As Flores shows here, the dilemma is heightened further by tensions of religion and the politics and varieties of Islam. The solution these artists have found is one that questions the constraints imposed on their creativity by external western notions of progress and modernity and the internally driven rigid orthodoxy of fundamentalist Islamic notions of authenticity. The result is art, literature, and film that forges new visions and avoids the constraints of both fundamentalist Islamic and Western definitions of what is aesthetically valid.

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Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature – An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. ‘High’ literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, are presented together. Cachia’s observations are not subordinated to any pre-formed literary theory, but describe and illustrate the directions taken, in order to present an overall picture of the field of relevance to the student of literature as well as to Arabists working in related fields.

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