Literature and nation in Middle East/
edited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi.
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University, 2006.
- vii, 264 p. 25 cm.
The production of locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel / Nadia Yaqub. Irony and the poetics of Palestinian exile / Ibrahim Muhawi. Gender and the Palestinian narrative of return in two novels by Ghassan Kanafani / Amy Zalman. Darwish's 'Indian speech' as dramatic performance : sacred space and transformation / J. Kristen Urban. Israeli Jewish nation building and Hebrew translations of Arabic literature / Hannah Amit-Kochavi. Between myth and history : Moshe Shamir's He walked in the fields / Shai Ginsberg. Writing the nation : the emergence of Egypt in the modern Arabic novel / Jeff Shalan. Arabic poetry, nationalism and social change : Sudanese colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Heather J. Sharkey. Marginal literatures of the Middle East / Peter Clark. The predicament of in-betweenness in the contemporary Lebanese exilic novel in English / Syrine C. Hout. The nation speaks : on the poetics of nationalist literature / Yasir Suleiman.
0748620737
Nationalism and literature -- Middle East. Nationalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.