Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles
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Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Description
In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures.
Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.
ISBN
9781474420228
Publication Date
8-2017
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
City
Edinburgh
Keywords
Autobiography, postcolonial, world literature, Arab literature
Disciplines
Arabic Language and Literature | Arabic Studies | Near and Middle Eastern Studies | Near Eastern Languages and Societies
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APA Citation
Abdel Nasser, T. K.
(2017).Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles. Edinburgh University Press.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/60
MLA Citation
Abdel Nasser, Tahia Khaled Gamal
Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/60
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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107601428