Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
Wen-chin OuyangConsiders the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition
Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.
Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.
- Authors studied include Naguib Mahfouz; Ghassan Kanafani; Ibrahim Nasrallah; Emil Habiby; Jamal al-Ghitani; Ali Mubarak, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Khalil Hawi and Salah 'Abd al-Sabur
- Works studied include Arabian Nights and Maqamat
- Addresses issues such as nation & nationalism, Arabic poetics of love, modernity & modernisation; the politics of desire, the poetics of space, women & cartography of nation, identity and intertexutality
عام:
2012
الناشر:
Edinburgh University Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
304
ISBN 10:
0748655050
ISBN 13:
9780748655052
ملف:
PDF, 1.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012