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  • Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

    by Samah Selim ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various forms of cultural and literary creation emerging from the encounter with European genres as well as indigenous popular literary ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

    by Samah Selim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Nation and Translation in the Middle East

    Edited by Samah Selim ...
    This book focuses on the important aspect of translation in the Middle East region, with special emphasis on translation movements and the production of modernity in a historical context defined by European imperialism, enlightenment universalism, and globalization. ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

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    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

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  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
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    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

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  • Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

    The Politics of the Turkish Novel

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  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

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    Coloniality after Empire

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    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

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