Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780393340778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 657 str.

Reza Aslan

Opis

Acting with Words Without Borders, which fosters international exchange through translation and publication of the world's finest literature, Aslan has purposefully situated this volume in the twentieth century, beyond the familiar confines of the Ottoman past, believing that the writers who have emerged in the last hundred years have not received their full due. This monumental collection, therefore, of nearly two hundred pieces, including short stories, novels, memoirs, essays and works of drama--many of them presented in English for the first time--features translated works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. Organized chronologically, the volume spans a century of literature--from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, from the great Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai--connected by the extraordinarily rich tradition of resplendent cultures that have been all too often ignored by the Western canon By shifting America's perception of the Middle Eastern world away from religion and politics, Tablet and Pen evokes the splendors of a region through the voices of its writers and poets, whose literature tells an urgent and liberating story. With a wealth of contextual information that places the writing within the historical, political, and cultural breadth of the region, Tablet & Pen is transcendent, a book to be devoured as a single sustained narrative, from the first page to the last. Creating a vital bridge between two estranged cultures, "this is that rare anthology: cohesive, affecting, and informing" (Publishers Weekly). Includes the writings of Kahlil Gibran, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazim Hikmet, Ismat Chughtai, Muhammad Iqbal, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Yasar Kemal, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, Ahmad Shamloo, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, and more.

O autorze

Reza Aslan ist Associate Professor of Creative Writing und Cooperating Faculty im Department of Religion an der University of California, Riverside. 1972 im Iran geboren, floh er nach der Revolution dort mit seiner Familie in die USA. Mit 15 wurde er evangelikaler Christ, kehrte später aber zum Islam zurück. Er studierte Religion in Santa Clara und Harvard und promovierte in Religionssoziologie an der University of California, Santa Barbara. Als Truman Capote Fellow an der University of Iowa absolvierte er den berühmten Writers' Workshop. Er publiziert in zahlreichen Medien.