The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant,9780791447345

The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant

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ISBN13: 9780791447345
ISBN10: 0791447340
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved with a different set of characteristics, depending upon the nature of their historical antecedents. This approach to postcolonial literature offers a way to compare and contrast it meaningfully with Western literature without relying on inherently Western literary models.

Author Biography

Stefan G. Meyer teaches at Siena Heights University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xiii
Arabic Transliteration Symbols xvi
Glossaries of Arabic Names xvii
Introduction: The Experimental Arabic Novel and Comparative Modernisms 1(14)
Modernist Ambivalence and the Beginnings of Narrative Experimentation
15(56)
Existentialism and the Fragmentation of Narrative Voice
15(24)
The Defamiliarization of Narrative
39(15)
The Strategy of Ironic Distance
54(17)
Recovering the Past: The ``Arabization'' of the Novel
71(46)
Cultural and Historical Counternarrative: Abdelrahman Munif
71(16)
Magical Realism: Salim Barakat
87(10)
Folk Narrative and Subjective Expression
97(20)
Rediscovering the Present: The Lebanese Civil War
117(58)
Fragmented Reportage: Ghada Samman
117(12)
The Patchwork Novel: Elias Khoury
129(11)
The Dynamics of War and Sexuality
140(19)
The Novel of Interior Situations
159(16)
Redefining the Future: Questions of Artistic Choice
175(80)
The ``Mirage of Language'' and the ``Dust of Life''
175(18)
The Conflict between Political and Artistic Commitment
193(16)
The Limits of Masculine Perspective
209(17)
The Dialectical Solution
226(15)
Mimicking Postmodernity
241(14)
Conclusion: The Experimental Arabic Novel and Postmodern Discourse 255(26)
Notes 281(16)
Bibliography 297(12)
Index 309

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