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The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives

The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives

Hermes, Nizar F.
Head, Gretchen

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesIran History

ISBN10: 1474406521
ISBN13: 9781474406529
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world's most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and political issues. The Arab city has been transformed from a mere physical structure and textual space into an (auto)biographical, novelistic, and poetic arena--often troubled and contested--for debating the encounter, competition and conflict between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, the meditative and the satiric, the individual and the communal, and the Self and Other(s).

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