Middle Eastern

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production in the Arab world

This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives.

Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings of Arabic and Hebrew prose.

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.

This book moves the field of study of Arab women's writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the "bravery" that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers innovate and...

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Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings of Arabic and Hebrew prose.

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.

This Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, it assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeligi to formulate a poetics of literary theory to read Arabic literature, this book examines...

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the subtle and refined.Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour - in verse as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771839709Author Gita HashemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032303994Author Martina CensiImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (emigre) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil...

Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic...

Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book,...