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

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Author / Creator:	Fadel, Hazem, author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Idlibī, Ulfat. -- Dimashq yā basmat al-ḥuzn. Kanafānī, Ghassān. -- ʻĀʼid ilá Ḥayfā Mosteghanemi, Ahlem, -- 1953- -- Dhākirat al-jasad. Khūrī, Ilyās. -- Riḥlat Ghāndī al-ṣaghīr. Dhākirat al-jasad (Mosteghanemi, Ahlem) Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature. Arabic fiction. Cities and towns in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755879

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ISBN:	9781443888530 1443888532 9781443885973 1443885975
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016).
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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