From Damascus to Beirut : contested cities in Arab writing (1969-1989) / by Hazem Fadel.

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Fadel, Hazem [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443888530
1443888532

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DDC classification:

892.73509 23

LOC classification:

PJ7577 .F244 2016

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Summary: Notably, studies on the Arabic novel tend to focus on canonical writers, like the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), and leave out or just mention en passant the work of others. This book is not concerned with the ways in which the Arabic novel breaks away from or reproduces Mahfouz's approach and techniques, but focuses instead on the way in which the authors in question engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation. The.

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Notably, studies on the Arabic novel tend to focus on canonical writers, like the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), and leave out or just mention en passant the work of others. This book is not concerned with the ways in which the Arabic novel breaks away from or reproduces Mahfouz's approach and techniques, but focuses instead on the way in which the authors in question engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation. The.

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