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245 0 0 _aLiterature and nation in the Middle East/
_cedited by Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi.
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_cc2006.
300 _avii, 264 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 232-256) and index.
505 _aIntroduction: 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
650 0 _aArabic literature.
650 0 _aHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aNationalism in literature.
700 _aSuleiman, Yasir.
700 _aMuhawi, Ibrahim.
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