Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967

Paul Starkey editor Barbara Michalak-Pikulska editor Luc Deheuvels editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Dec '09

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Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967 cover

This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, Salim Matar and the recently deceased Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih, whose seminal work Season of Migration to the North heralded a new phase in the modern Arabic literary tradition. The volume, which also includes two essays on aspects of intertextuality in Gulf literature, also discusses transformations of popular medieval literature such as the Alf Layla wa-Layla (the Thousand and One Nights) in modern Arabic literature.

ISBN: 9780719081897

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm

Weight: 304g

228 pages