Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature : : essays in honor of professor Issa J. Boullata / / edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek & Wael Hallaq.

• TeilnehmendeR: Boullata, Issa J., 1929-; Abdel-Malek, Kamal.; Hallaq, Wael B., 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (433 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume offers a collection of essays by a group of scholars of Arabic literature. It explores various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature.

Table of Contents

Contents; Preface; Biographical Notes on the Contributors; Professor Issa J. Boullata: A Profile of an Intellectual Exile; Literary Creativity and the Cultural Heritage: The atlāl in Modern Arabic Fiction; Love, Death, and the Ghost of al-Khansā' : The Modern Female Poetic Voice in Fadwā Tuqān's Elegies for Her Brother Ibrāhīm; The December Flower,"" a poem by Fadwā Tuqān. Translated from the Arabic; Sindbad the Sailor and the Early Arabic Novel; ""The Infiltrators,"" a short story by Hannā Ibrāhīm. Translated from the Arabic

Literary Creativity and Social Change: What has Happened to the Arab Psyche Since the Sixties? A Study in a few Literary Masks; Going Beyond Socialist Realism, Getting Nowhere: Luwīs 'Awad's Cross-cultural Encounter with the Other; ""Only Women and Writing Can Save Us from Death"": Erotic Empowering in the Poetry of Nizār Qabbānī (d. 1998); Creativity in the Novels of Emile Habiby, with Special Reference to Sa'īd the Pessoptimist; Feminism in Revolution: The Case of Sahar Khalīfa; History, Religion, and the Construction of Subjectivity in Elias Khoury's Rihlat Ghāndī al-Saghīr; Living in Truth

Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision and Reality; Al-Balda al-Ukhrā: A Meta-Text Un-Veiled; Dr. Ramzī and Mr. Sharaf: Sun'allāh Ibrāhīm and the Duplicity of the Literary Field; Visual Thinking and the Arab Semantic Memory; Explorations in Exile and Creativity: The Case of Arab-American Writers; Gibran and the American Literary Canon: The Problem of The Prophet; The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses; Committed Postmodernity: Muhammad Barrāda's The Game of Forgetting; Postmoderning the Traditional in the Autobiography of Shaykh Kishk; Iman Mersal: Egypt's Postmodern Poet; Index