TY - BOOK AU - Suleiman, Yasir. AU - Muhawi, Ibrahim. TI - Literature and nation in the Middle East SN - 0748620737 (hbk.) U1 - 892.7 PY - 2006/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Arabic literature KW - History and criticism KW - Nationalism in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-256) and index; Introduction: Literature and Nation in the Middle East: An Overview Yasir Suleiman 1. The Production of Locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel Nadia Yaqub 2. Irony and the Poetics of Palestinian Exile Ibrahim Muhawi 3. Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani Amy Zalman 4. Darwish's 'Indian Speech' as Dramatic Performance: Sacred Space and Transformation J. Kristen Urban 5. Israeli Jewish Nation Building and Hebrew Translations of Arabic Literature Hannah Amit Kochavi 6. Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir's He Walked in the Fields Shai Ginsburg 7. Writing the Nation: The Emergence of Egypt in the Modem Arabic Novel Jeff Shalan 8. Arabic Poetry, Nationalism and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives Heather J. Sharkey 9. Marginal Literatures of the Middle East Peter Clark 10. The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel in English Syrine C. Hout 11. The Nation Speaks: On the Poetics of Nationalist Literature Yasir Suleiman ER -