Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles - (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) by Tahia Abdel Nasser (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, Nasser examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p> <p></p> <p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'The corpus is well-chosen and germane, and spans a range of texts that have never been studied together. The chapter breakdown is extremely interesting in the way it pairs language, location and genre. The methodological framework is highly original in that it reads this multilingual Arab corpus as a complex instance of a fully embodied comparative literature. Moreover, the framing dialectic that moves between the subject's solitude/belonging is richly productive and offers a new way of thinking about the texts and the tradition they represent.' Samah Selim, Rutgers University Examines the effects of colonialism and independence on modern Arab autobiography written in Arabic, English and French 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, Najla Said, Haifa Zangana, Alia Mamdouh, Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources and affinities with other literatures. Taking a comparative approach, Tahia Abdel 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. Key Features - Traces the effects of anticolonial and anti-imperialist movements on Arab autobiographical production in Arabic, English and French in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - Provides a new assessment of autobiographical works in Arab literature and a contribution to discussions of postcolonialism and world literature - Considers the genre's affinities with other literatures in the global South - Examines the effects of national movements on contemporary reworkings of the genre in which Arab writers re-envision subjectivity in national cultures and transnational networks Tahia Abdel Nasser is assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is editor of Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser's Nasser: My Husband (2013). Cover image: War Child, Beirut, Lebanon, 2009 (c) Rola Khayyat Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2022-8 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Clearly, 'Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles' constitutes a significant intervention in Arab and autobiographical studies. The original contribution of Nasser's monograph is not limited to providing a fresh perspective on an embargoed genre from the Arab region, to use a Saidian<br>term. An equally significant quality of Nasser's study lies in her comparative approach through which she draws from the literary traditions of the Global South to analyze Arab literary autobiographical narratives. -- Hiyem Cheurfa, Contemporary Review of the Middle East Journal<p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Tahia Abdel Nasser is Assistant Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She has published in Comparative Literature Studies, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Journal of Arabic Literature, Dictionary of African Biography (2011), Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (2001) and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (2001).<p>
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