Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Amirhossein Vafa

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West... Lees meer

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

K Hanna

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms cap... Lees meer

Post-Arab Spring Narratives

Abida Younas

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• 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, His... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

I Saloul

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as... Lees meer

Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature

Kamran Talattof

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami's poetry as the ... Lees meer

Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

Samah Selim

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• 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 w... Lees meer

Urdu Literary Culture

M Farooqi

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings o... Lees meer

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

K Hanna

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms cap... Lees meer

Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

M Hatem

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national communit... Lees meer

Urdu Literary Culture

M Farooqi

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings o... Lees meer

Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

M Omidsalar

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only me... Lees meer

The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

S Antoon

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• The pre-modern Arab poet Ibn al-Hajjaj (941-1001) left an indelible mark on the trajectory of pre-modern Arabic poetry and culture by pioneering and p... Lees meer

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are... Lees meer

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon

N Radwan

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a veh... Lees meer

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are... Lees meer

New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East

J Mohaghegh

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role ... Lees meer

Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature

M Naaman

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• 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... Lees meer

Iranian Cinema and Philosophy

Farhang Erfani

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other, ' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically ... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

I Saloul

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as... Lees meer

Authority Without Territory

Kenneth A Loparo

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first stud... Lees meer

Authority Without Territory

Kenneth A Loparo

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first stud... Lees meer

The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry

S Antoon

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• 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... Lees meer

Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe

M Yegenoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings togethe... Lees meer

Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Amirhossein Vafa

• Hardcover | Engels | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West... Lees meer