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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature : essays in honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata / edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek & Wael Hallaq. |
| Added Author: | Abdel-Malek, Kamal Hallaq, Wael |
| Publisher: | Leiden : Brill, 2000. |
| Pages: | xv, 415 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9004117636 |
| Notes: | c2000 by Konninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.Includes biographical notes on contributors and editors. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Professor Issa J. Boullata: a profile of an intellectual exile / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Literary creativity and the cultural heritage : the atlal in modern Arabic fiction / Hilary Kilpatrick -- Love, death, and the ghost of al-Khansa' : the modern female poetic voice in Fadwa Tuqan's elegies for her brother Ibrahim / Terri DeYoung -- "The December flower," a poem by Fadwa Tuqan. Translated from the Arabic / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Sindbad the sailor and the early Arabic novel / Roger Allen -- "The infiltrators," a short story by Hanna Ibrahim. Translated from the Arabic / Kamal Abdel-Malek -- Literary creativity and social change : what has happened to the Arab psyche since the sixties? A study in a few literary masks / Mona Takieddine Amyuni -- Going beyond socialist realism, getting nowhere : Luwis 'Awad's cross-cultural encounter with the other / Abdul-Nabi Isstaif -- "Only women and writing can save us from death": erotic empowering in the poetry of Nizar Qabbani (d. 1998) / Amila Buturovic -- Creativity in th |
| Author as Subject: | al-Khansa', d. after 644Tuqan, Fadwa Ibrahim, Hanna 'Awad, Luwis, 1915-90Qabbani, Nizar, 1923-1998Habibi, Imil Khalifa, Sahar Khuri, Ilyas. Ibrahim, Sun' Allah Mirsal, Iman |
| Descriptors: | Ancient poetry Novel Short story Modern poetry |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL PJ7504 BOU |
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