The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant

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SUNY Press, 1 янв. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 323
The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved with a different set of characteristics, depending upon the nature of their historical antecedents. This approach to postcolonial literature offers a way to compare and contrast it meaningfully with Western literature without relying on inherently Western literary models.
 

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Modernist Ambivalence and the Beginnings of Narrative Experimentation
15
THE DEFAMILIARIZATION OF NARRATIVE
39
THE STRATEGY OF IRONIC DISTANCE
54
Recovering the Past The Arabization of the Novel
71
SALIM BARAKAT
87
FOLK NARRATIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EXPRESSION
97
Rediscovering the Present The Lebanese Civil War
117
ELIAS KHOURY
129
Redefining the Future Questions of Artistic Choice
175
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN POLITICAL AND ARTISTIC COMMITMENT
193
THE LIMITS OF MASCULINE PERSPECTIVE
209
THE DIALECTICAL SOLUTION
226
MIMICKING POSTMODERNITY
241
The Experimental Arabic Novel and Postmodern Discourse
255
Notes
281
Bibliography
297

THE DYNAMICS OF WAR AND SEXUALITY
140
THE NOVEL OF INTERIOR SITUATIONS
159

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Stefan G. Meyer teaches at Siena Heights University.

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