Télécharger le livre :  Post-Arab Spring Narratives
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This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-04-15
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
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This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial allegory and his...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-28
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
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This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-01
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Recasting American and Persian Literatures
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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-09
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose
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This book approaches the Qur’an as a primary source for delineating the definition of ugliness, and by extension beauty, and in turn establishing meaningful tools and terms for literary criticism within the discipline of classical Arabic literature (adab). Focusing on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-10
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
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An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-30
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Authority without Territory
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Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi?a Imami...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-18
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
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The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-02-27
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Urdu Literary Culture
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Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-07-02
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
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Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or TheCatastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-17
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk
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Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-07
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe
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This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-14
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Sex, and the City
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Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-02-14
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
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Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-02-14
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Iranian Cinema and Philosophy
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In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic.In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh
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This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-11-16
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Islam in the Eastern African Novel
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This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-06-06
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
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This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the discussion of the life and works of  the prominent writer `A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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Télécharger le livre :  New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East
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Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-08
Collection : Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
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