Modern Palestinian Literature And Culture

Author : Ami Elad-Bouskila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135297290
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture written by Ami Elad-Bouskila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Palestinian society, economy, and politics are appearing with increasing frequency, but works in English about Palestinian literature, particularly that written in Israel, are still scarce. This book looks at this literature within the political and social context of Palestinian society, with a special focus on literature written during the Intifada "uprising" period (1987-93).

Author : Salma K. Jayyusi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231075084
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature written by Salma K. Jayyusi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayyusi presents in English translation a Palestinian world view characterized by intensity, paradox, aspiration, and eloquence. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature will certainly become indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary Arab culture.

Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075084
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology traces the written record of a people beset by nearly a century of conflict, exile, and dispersal. This collection includes poetry, fiction, and personal narratives by both establishing and rising Palestinian creative writers of the modern period.

Author : Ami Elad-Bouskila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135297223
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture written by Ami Elad-Bouskila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Palestinian society, economy, and politics are appearing with increasing frequency, but works in English about Palestinian literature, particularly that written in Israel, are still scarce. This book looks at this literature within the political and social context of Palestinian society, with a special focus on literature written during the Intifada "uprising" period (1987-93).

Author : Bassam K. Frangieh
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516526307
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition) written by Bassam K. Frangieh and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture exposes readers to fundamental characteristics of the Arab people, their culture, and their society. Over the course of 13 chapters, readers learn about the emergence and influence of Islam in Arab culture, religious and ethnic minorities within the Arab world, the critical role of family in Arab life, and the origin and evolution of the Arabic language. Dedicated chapters provide an introduction to the religion of Islam and the Qur'an, and an exploration of Islamic communities throughout the ages. Additional chapters explore Arab poetry, literature, music, values, and thought, revealing the impact of major artworks and their creators on Arab life and tradition. The final chapters address the Arab Spring, the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, and contemporary challenges and opportunities. An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture introduces readers to aspects of Arab culture while demonstrating how these facets intertwine to create a unique tapestry of identity, experience, and history. The book is well suited to courses in Middle East culture and history, politics, thought, literature, religion, and language, and courses in sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Author : I. Saloul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001380
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination written by I. Saloul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.

Author : Kfir Cohen Lustig
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788737571
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs written by Kfir Cohen Lustig and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the present. Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs charts the aesthetic and political formation of neoliberalism and globalisation in Israeli and Palestinian literature from the 1940s to the present. By tracking literature’s move from making worlds to reading signs, Cohen Lustig proposes a new way to read and theorise our global contemporary. Cohen Lustig argues that the period of Israeli statism and its counterpart of Palestinian statelessness produced works that sought to make and create whole worlds and social time, from the creation of the new state of Israel to preserving collective visions of Palestinian statehood. During the period of neoliberalism, after 1985 in Israel and the 1993 Oslo Accords in Palestine, literature turned to the reading of signs, where politics and history are now rearticulated through the private lives of individual subjects. Here characters do not make social time but live within it and inquire after its missing origin. Cohen Lustig argues for new ways to track the subjectivities and aesthetics produced by larger shifts in production. In so doing, he proposes a new model to understand the historical development of Israeli and Palestinian literature as well as world literature in our contemporary moment. With a preface from Fredric Jameson.

Author : I. Saloul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001380
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination written by I. Saloul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.

Author : Brinda Mehta
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631354
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing written by Brinda Mehta and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume carefully assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women’s lives as portrayed in literature. Encompassing women writers and critics from Arab, French, and English traditions, it forges a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. Brinda Mehta examines the significance of memory rituals in women’s writings, such as the importance of water and purification rites in Islam and how these play out in the women’s space of the hammam (Turkish bath). Mehta shows how sensory experiences connect Arab women to their past. Specific chapters raise awareness of the experiences of Palestinian women in exile and under occupation, Bedouin and desert rituals, and women’s views on conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and the compatibility between Islam and feminism. At once provocative and enlightening, this work is a groundbreaking addition to the timely field of modern Arab women’s writing and criticism and Arab literary studies.

Author : Salim Tamari
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942426
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain against the Sea written by Salim Tamari and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. These essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a watershed in the modern social history of the Arab East, the formulation of the Arab Enlightenment.