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Book Synopsis The Wedding of Zein by : Tayeb Salih
Download or read book The Wedding of Zein written by Tayeb Salih and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married—Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein married at last? Zein’s particular role in the life of the village has been the peculiar one of falling in love again and again with girls who promptly marry another man. It would be unheard of for him to get married himself. In Tayeb Salih’s wonderfully agile telling, the story of how this miracle came to be is one that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community: tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional. In the end, however, Zein’s ridiculous good luck augurs an ultimate reconciliation, opening a prospect of a world made whole. Salih’s classic novella appears here with two of his finest short stories, “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” and “A Handful of Dates.”
Book Synopsis Season of Migration to the North by : al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Download or read book Season of Migration to the North written by al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ and published by Penguin Group(CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.' Observer
Book Synopsis Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn by : Amira El-Zein
Download or read book Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn written by Amira El-Zein and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn, Amira El-Zein explores the integral role these mythological figures play, revealing that the concept of jinn is fundamental to understanding Muslim culture and tradition.
Book Synopsis The Wedding of Zein by : al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Download or read book The Wedding of Zein written by al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tayeb Salih written by Waïl S. Hassan and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in which his work depicts the clashing of Arab ideologies - that is, questions of tradition, modernity, imperialism, gender and political authority.
Book Synopsis A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by : Robert Walser
Download or read book A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser’s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser’s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.
Book Synopsis Modern Arabic Literature by : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the Novel in English by : Simon Gikandi
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by Simon Gikandi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
Book Synopsis Hearing the Call Across Traditions by : Adam Davis
Download or read book Hearing the Call Across Traditions written by Adam Davis and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the connections between faith, service, and social justice through the prose, verse, and sacred texts of the world's great faith traditions-Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and more. Drawing from diverse literary genres, religious and philosophical perspectives, and historical periods, these short and provocative readings cut to the heart of the many obstacles and joys that accompany lives devoted to faith and service: This rich collection will create a platform for discussing and understanding the faith-based service of others as well as inspire you to reflect on the meaning behind your own commitment to improving the world. Book jacket.
Author :Zahid Bukhari Publisher :International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) ISBN 13 :1565645804 Total Pages :295 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (656 download)
Book Synopsis Observing the Observer by : Zahid Bukhari
Download or read book Observing the Observer written by Zahid Bukhari and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE collection of papers in this volume documents the study of Islam in American Universities. Over the last few decades the United States has seen significant growth in the study of Islam and Islamic societies in institutions of higher learning fueled primarily by events including economic relations of the U.S. with Muslim countries, migration of Muslims into the country, conversion of Americans to Islam, U.S. interests in Arab oil resources, involvement of Muslims in the American public square, and the tragic events of 9/11. Although there is increasing recognition that the study of Islam and the role of Muslims is strategically essential in a climate of global integration, multiculturalism, and political turmoil, nevertheless, the state of Islamic Studies in America is far from satisfactory. The issue needs to be addressed, particularly as the need for intelligent debate and understanding is continuously stifled by what some have termed an “Islam industry” run primarily by fly-by journalists, think tank pundits, and cut-and-paste “experts.”
Download or read book Symbolism 14 written by Rüdiger Ahrens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas, sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology, history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical reflections.
Download or read book Voices of Exiles written by Ami Elad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al- Tayyib S'lih is not merely another writer in the Arab world or in exile. The fact that he is a Sudanese author who has spent more years of his life in the West than in the Arab world, and who writes in Arabic, transforms his literary work into a special phenomenon. Although very few of his writings have been published, these have been sufficient to make his name known as a prominent voice of an Arab novelist and short-story writer. Today he is a distinguished writer of modern Arabic literature. The importance of this book derives from the fact that al-Tayyib Salih deals primarily with a crucial theme in modern Arabic literature - the clash between Eastern and Western cultures - and sheds an interesting light on this conflict. He is aware of the importance of the questions he raises and pursues them because they are at the core of the issue of modernity. The question of individual and collective identity during a time of change is therefore a major issue in al-Tayyib Salih's work, as well as in the work of other prominent Arab authors. al-Tayyib Salih's uniqueness is evident in the poetic style of his writing, in which he combines elements of classical Arabic literature with mod key to understanding the work of al- al-Tayyib Salih is in its simplicity. In poetic terms, his literary devices, in addition to his usage of various writing techniques are very diverse. A prime example of this is the way the author chooses to shape his characters, making impressive repeated use of the same characters in a number of his works, changing their significance, status, and centrality, thus interconnecting them into a single corpus. These poetic elements, in addition to the variety of themes, raise the standard of writing to the level of poetry on the one hand, while giving the reader a sense of his mythical and magical world on the other.
Book Synopsis Inspiriertes Schreiben? by : Peter Dové
Download or read book Inspiriertes Schreiben? written by Peter Dové and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literatur als Seismograph gesellschaftlichen Lebens lässt spüren, wie weit dieses Leben von religiösen Vorstellungen durchtränkt ist. Verschiedene Islamwissenschaftler gehen in ihren Beiträgen der Frage nach, wie 'der Islam' oder 'Islamisches' im literarischen Schaffen arabischer, türkischer und persischer Autoren sichtbar wird. In literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive untersuchen sie den Einfluss der Religion auf die Gestaltung des täglichen Lebens in den fiktionalen Lebensgeschichten. Unter sprachwissenschaftlichem Gesichtspunkt befassen sie sich mit religiös assoziierten Metaphern und generell der sprachlichen Präsenz des Religiösen in den Texten. Es dreht sich um die Frage, in welchem Ausmass 'Islamisches' sozusagen 'automatisch' in literarischen Werken auftaucht, weil das dargestellte Leben eben durch eine 'islamische' Lebensführung bestimmt oder beeinflusst ist und weil das verfügbare sprachliche Instrumentarium 'islamisch' unterlegt ist.
Book Synopsis A Matter of Fate by : Dalya Cohen-Mor
Download or read book A Matter of Fate written by Dalya Cohen-Mor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cohen-Mor examines the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. Offering 16 modern short stories as illustrations of her analysis, she contends that belief in fate continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and society.
Book Synopsis Poets in a Landscape by : Gilbert Highet
Download or read book Poets in a Landscape written by Gilbert Highet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.
Book Synopsis Laugh like an Egyptian by : Cristina Dozio
Download or read book Laugh like an Egyptian written by Cristina Dozio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.
Download or read book My Marriage written by Jakob Wassermann and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric, and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mold Ganna into what he wants. But no one can control her troubling passions. As their marriage starts to self-destruct, Herzog will discover that he can never escape her. Posthumously published in 1934 and based on Wassermann's own ruinous marriage, My Marriage is a tragic masterpiece that unfolds in shocking detail. This story of rare intensity and drama is now brought to English readers in a powerful translation by Michael Hofmann.
