Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in which it engages with aesthetics, ethics, and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.
Taking love and desire as the central tropes, the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity, and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.
Authors studied include Naguib Mahfouz; Ghassan Kanafani; Ibrahim Nasrallah; Emil Habiby; Jamal al-Ghitani; Ali Mubarak; Muhammad al-Muwaylihi; Badr Shakir al-Sayyab; Khalil Hawi and Salah 'Abd al-Sabur.
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Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in which it engages with aesthetics, ethics, and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.
Taking love and desire as the central tropes, the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity, and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.
Authors studied include Naguib Mahfouz; Ghassan Kanafani; Ibrahim Nasrallah; Emil Habiby; Jamal al-Ghitani; Ali Mubarak; Muhammad al-Muwaylihi; Badr Shakir al-Sayyab; Khalil Hawi and Salah 'Abd al-Sabur.
