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A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography

Author : Ariel M. Sheetrit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000052435
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography written by Ariel M. Sheetrit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although every autobiography naturally includes and relates to others to one degree or another, these autobiographies tend to foreground other characters, voices, places and texts to the extent that at times it appears as though the autobiographical subject has dropped out of sight, even to the point of raising the question: is this an autobiography? These are indeed autobiographies, Sheetrit argues, albeit articulating the story of the self in unconventional ways. Sheetrit offers in-depth literary studies that expose each text’s distinct strategy for life narrative. Crucial to this book’s approach is the innovative theoretical foundation of relational autobiography that reveals the grounding of the self within the collective—not as symbolic of it. This framework exposes the intersection of the story of the autobiographical subject with the stories of others and the tensions between personal and communal discourse. Relational strategies for self-representation expose a movement between two seemingly opposing desires—the desire to separate and dissociate from others, and the desire to engage and integrate within a particular relationship, community, culture or milieu. This interplay between disentangling and conscious entangling constitutes the leitmotif that unites the studies in this book.

Interpreting the Self

Author : Kristen Brustad
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520226678
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Self written by Kristen Brustad and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive work on the autobiographical tradition in Arabic letters, which includes a detailed introduction to the genre and a selection of autobiographical texts ranging from the 9th to the 19th centuries.

Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles

Author : Nasser Tahia Abdel Nasser
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474420230
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles by : Nasser Tahia Abdel Nasser

Download or read book Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles written by Nasser Tahia Abdel Nasser and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures.Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.

Writing the Self

Author : Robin Ostle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Self written by Robin Ostle and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of autobiographical material and ranges in time from the 17th century to the present day. They include travelogues as a category of autobiographical writing, as well as a wide variety of the more traditional retrospective prose histories of the self.

Arabic Disclosures

Author : Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268201668
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Disclosures written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical writing. In Arabic Disclosures Muhsin J. al-Musawi investigates the genre of autobiography within the modern tradition of Arabic literary writing from the early 1920s to the present. Al-Musawi notes in the introduction that the purpose of this work is not to survey the entirety of autobiographical writing in modern Arabic but rather to apply a rigorously identified set of characteristics and approaches culled from a variety of theoretical studies of the genre to a particular set of autobiographical works in Arabic, selected for their different methodologies, varying historical contexts within which they were conceived and written, and the equally varied lives experienced by the authors involved. The book begins in the larger context of autobiographical space, where the theories of Bourdieu, Bachelard, Bakhtin, and Lefebvre are laid out, and then considers the multiple ways in which a postcolonial awareness of space has impacted the writings of many of the authors whose works are examined. Organized chronologically, al-Musawi begins with the earliest modern example of autobiographical work in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn’s book, translated into English as The Stream of Days. Al-Musawi studies some of the major pioneers in the development of modern Arabic thought and literary expression: Jurjī Zaydān, Mīkḫāˀīl Nuˁaymah, Aḥmad Amīn, Salāmah Mūsā, Sayyid Quṭb, and untranslated works by the prominent critic and scholar Ḥammādī Ṣammūd, the novelist ʿĀliah Mamdūḥ, and others. He also examines the autobiographies of a number of women, including Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī and Fadwā Ṭūqān, and fiction writers. The book draws a map of Arab thought and culture in its multiple engagements with other cultures and will be useful for scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic studies, and Middle Eastern studies, intellectual thought, and history.

Interpreting the Self

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926110
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Self written by Dwight F. Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent an astonishing variety of geographical areas, occupations, and religious affiliations. This pioneering study explores the origins, historical development, and distinctive characteristics of autobiography in the Arabic tradition, drawing from texts written between the ninth and nineteenth centuries c.e. This volume consists of two parts: a general study rethinking the place of autobiography in the Arabic tradition, and the translated texts. Part one demonstrates that there are far more Arabic autobiographical texts than previously recognized by modern scholars and shows that these texts represent an established and—especially in the Middle Ages—well-known category of literary production. The thirteen translated texts in part two are drawn from the full one-thousand-year period covered by this survey and represent a variety of styles. Each text is preceded by a brief introduction guiding the reader to specific features in the text and providing general background information about the author. The volume also contains an annotated bibliography of 130 premodern Arabic autobiographical texts. In addition to presenting much little-known material, this volume revisits current understandings of autobiographical writing and helps create an important cross-cultural comparative framework for studying the genre.

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723235
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes written by Dwight F. Reynolds and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature

Author : Julie Scott Meisami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415185721
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature written by Julie Scott Meisami and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.

Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature

Author : Julie Scott Meisami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415185714
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature written by Julie Scott Meisami and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.

Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447061414
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950 written by Roger Allen and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --

Arabesques

Author : Ibrahim A. Mumayiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by Ibrahim A. Mumayiz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inleiding tot en vertalingen van klassieke Arabische dichters.

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

Author : Issa J. Boullata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004117631
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature written by Issa J. Boullata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.

Nizar Qabbani

Author : George Nicolas El-hage, Ph.d.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548000714
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Nizar Qabbani written by George Nicolas El-hage, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title of this book indicates, this is Nizar's journey in life as a student, a son, a man, a lover, a revolutionary, a rebel, a diplomat, a patriot, an ambassador, a world traveler, a citizen of the world, a literary critic, a champion of women's rights, and a Don Juan. Above all, he is a pioneer of Modern Arabic Poetry and the innovative "poet par excellence" who stood firmly and honestly in the face of the literary and political establishments that held, at that time and for the past thousand years before, an absolute monopoly on the fettered mind and on the restrained imagination of generations of young Arab men and women, both politicians and intellectuals alike. Nizar stood unyielding. He was a "Man against [the] Empire." He was the uncompromising witness to his times and era, an effectual participant who helped shape the new movement in Modern Arabic Poetry and modernize the Arabic language and the Arab nation's outlook towards women, love, sex, emotions, and most definitely, patriotic sentiments that were until then politically correct but phony and void of any national passion or commitment. Nizar Qabbani was never a casual observer standing on the margin of history or a bearer of false witness and fake testimony; instead, he was the storm that brought the change and the mirror in which the Arab nation saw its putrefied and failing body reflected and suspended in a vacuum on the decomposed garment of tradition and worn out institutions. This book is not just an autobiography of Nizar Qabbani; rather, it is a comprehensive testimony of his era and a multi-faceted historical and humanistic document that records the story of the Arab nation's emotional, political, social, literary, and cultural struggle against its own outdated tradition, against foreign influences, and ultimately against itself and its own demons of superstition, magic, fables, and archaic beliefs.

Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957)

Author : A. J. Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315443996
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: The Seven Odes (1957) written by A. J. Arberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the sixth century. Arberry’s introduction explains to the reader what was known about the poems and how they came to be preserved and distributed over time. The epilogue particularly interrogates the authenticity of the poems and tracks how they have been transmitted over time. This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.

Immigrant Narratives

Author : Wail S. Hassan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199354979
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Narratives written by Wail S. Hassan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.

Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature

Author : Sebastian Günther
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3487154366
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature written by Sebastian Günther and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded papers from the International Workshop "Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Prose Literature and Poetry," held June 30-July 1, 2011 at the Lichtenberg Kolleg for Advanced Studies, University of Geottingen.

In My Childhood

Author : Tetz Rooke
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book In My Childhood written by Tetz Rooke and published by Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze the development of a modern form of Arabic prose literature, the autobiography of childhood, and explore its generic characteristics. The basis of this investigation is a representative corpus of Arabic autobiographies rich in childhood material published between 1929 and 1988 by twenty writers from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Morocco.