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Document Type:Article of a journal
Title:Darkness in the desert : tradition and transgression in Ibrahim al-Kuni's 'Ushb al-layl /John Joseph Henry Rossetti.
Author: Rossetti, John Joseph Henry
Language:English
Bibliographic Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"This paper examines themes of moral transgression in the 1997 novel 'Ushb al-Layl (Night Grass) by Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Kuni, particularly as viewed through the novel's recurrent motif of darkness and blackness." (abstract)
Author as Subject: al-Kuni, Ibrahim
Descriptors: Novel Novel -- Libya
Source: Journal of Arabic Literature ; 42: 1 (2011), p. 49-66
Source Type: Serial
 

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