Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles

ISBN-13: 9781474420228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Tahia Abdel Nasser

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreword; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Literary Solitude: Autobiography, Modernity, and Independence; 1 From Solitude to Stealth: Taha Hussein and Sonallah Ibrahim; 2 Revolutionary Memoirs: Assia Djebar and Latifa al-Zayyat; 3 Palestine Song: Mahmoud Darwish and Mourid Barghouti; 4 Revolutionary Solitude: Edward Said and Najla Said; 5 Dreaming of Solitude: Haifa Zangana and Alia Mamdouh; 6 Tahrir Memoirs: Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince; Epilogue: Arab Literature, World Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.