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    Literary visions of the Middle East : an anthology of canonical masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew fiction (mid-19th to early 21st centuries) / compiled, edited and commented by Stephan Guth.

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    • Title:Literary visions of the Middle East : an anthology of canonical masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew fiction (mid-19th to early 21st centuries) / compiled, edited and commented by Stephan Guth.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Guth, Stephan, compiler, editor, writer of added commentary.
    • Published/Created:Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
      ©2019

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Middle Eastern fiction--Translations into English.
      Middle Eastern literature--Translations into English.
      Middle Eastern fiction--History and criticism.
      Comparative literature.
    • Description:vii, 543 pages ; 22 cm
    • Series:Mîzân (Wiesbaden, Germany) ; Bd. 29.
    • Notes:Anthology of texts translated into English, partly as excerpts.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-543) and glossary.
    • ISBN:9783447111065 paperback
      3447111062 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Beginnings of Modern Literature in the Middle East: The Reform Period
      1857: The Midde East Could Look Very Different From Now: An Early Utopia
      Mirza Fatali Akhundov, "The Stars Were Deceived"
      1859: Ridiculing Dated Tradition: Theatre as the School of the Nation
      Ibrahim Sinasi, "The Wedding of a Poet"
      II. Fin-de-siecle/Pre-World War I
      1898: Precious Tradition: Neo-Classicism Countering Cultural Domination
      Muhammad al-Muwaylihl, "The Court of Appeal" (from What 'Isa Ibn Hisham Told Us)
      1908: Homeless in a New Home: The Tragedy of the Aliyah
      Shmuel Yosef Agnon, "Agunot"
      Down with Despotism! The Observer-Philosopher's Contemplations and Outcry
      Jubran Khalll Jubran, "The Cry of the Graves"
      1910: Utopia, Fatalist Contemplation, and Morality. The Nobility of the Powerless
      Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti, "The Happy City", "A White Halt", "Time's Lesson"
      1919: Reformism Defeated: The Seductive Pleasures of the Old System
      Reflk Halid Karay, "The Peach Orchards"
      1919?: Reclaiming Discursive Hegemony from the West: The Enlightened Effendi vs the Naive Westerner
      `Omer Seyfeddin, "The Secret Temple"
      III. Early Nation-Building and the Interwar Period
      1921: How Should the Nation Speak and Write? The Sweetness of the People's Language
      Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, "Persian is Sugar"
      1925: Sticking to Tradition, Becoming Ridiculous: The Rabbi Who Broke the Sabbath
      Hayim Nahman Bialik, "The Short Friday"
      1929: Doomed to Watch the Faint Light of Hope Fade Away: The Committed Intellectual Fighting a Losing Battle
      Mahmud Tahir Lashin, "Village Small Talk"
      1925: Exposing the Ugliness of Greed: Literature as the Reformist's Tool
      1937: to Help Promote the Progress of the Nation
      Mahmud Taymur, "The Comedy of Death"
      1940: Yes, We Can! A Blind Boy's Success Story as Model for the Nation's Future
      Taha Husayn, "Student Days" (from The Days)
      IV. Post-World War II
      1948: The Responsibility of the Victorious: How to Deal with the Native Population?
      S. Yizhar, "The Prisoner"
      1952: Even on an Idyllic Island: The Irreversible Spread of Inhumanity
      Sait Faik Abasiyanik, "A Dot on the Map"
      1953: A Vicious Circle: Poverty and Overpopulation
      Yusuf Idris, "The Cheapest Nights"
      Local and the Global: Turkey Integrating into World Economy
      Haldun Taner, "Rain Was Falling at Sishane"
      1955: The Marginalized as Fellow Human Beings: These, Too, Are "the Nation"
      Sait Faik Abasiyanik, "The Man Who Doesn't Know What a Tooth or a Toothache Is"
      V. Beginning Doubts
      1954: Disgusting Reality vs Lofty Dreams: Imagining Prosperity after Misery
      Yusuf Idris, "Farahat's Republic"
      Prison as Mirror of the State of Affairs: A View from Below
      Orhan Kemal, Ward 72 (excerpts)
      At the Cost of Humanity? Modernism Becoming Uncanny
      Haldun Taner, "The Foot"
      1957: Easy to Achieve and of Deep and Long-Lasting Effect: The Benefits of Western-style Technology
      Rasul Parvizi, "The Story of My Glasses"
      1958: Still a Long Way to Go: The Desolate Condition of the School System
      Jalal Al-e Ahmad, The School Principal (excerpts)
      1961: Modernity as Tragic Irony: A Critical Assessment of Turkey's Twentieth Century Efforts
      Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar, The Clock-Setting Institute (excerpts)
      Does God Still Exist? Modern Man in Search of a Cure for His `Illness'
      Nagib Mahfuz, "Zaabalawi"
      1963: Uncompromising Love and Responsibility: The Precarious Situation of the New Woman
      Layla Ba'albakki, "A Spaceship of Tenderness to the Moon"
      Death of a Kibbutznik: Nature Takes Revenge
      Amos Oz, "Nomad and Viper"
      Metropolis Driving You Crazy: The Absurdity of Life in Modern Cairo
      Yusuf al-Sharuni, "The Crowd"
      Venomous Tradition Persisting: The Burden of the Code of Honour and Shame
      Zakariyya Tamir, "Snow at Night"
      VI. New Sensibility
      1966: The Postcolonial Generation in Danger of Drowning: Where Are the Safe Shores? al-Tzyyib Salih, Season of Migration to the North (excerpts)
      1967: After the Collapse of the Grand Narratives: A Nation in Disarray
      Nagib Mahfuz, "Under the Bus Shelter"
      1969: Iran Under Occupation: Shi'a Islam, National Heritage, and Patriotic Resistance
      Simin Daneshvar, A Persian Requiem (Savushun) (excerpts)
      1971: Continuing Amorality Out of Necessity and in Full Awareness: An Egyptian "Ring Parable" Yusuf Idris, "A House of Flesh"
      1972: Exposing the Absurdities of the Surveillance State: Relief through Laughter
      Aziz Nesin, "The People Awaken"
      1973: Depressing and Unintelligible: What We See Is Only the Top of the Iceberg
      Yusuf Atilgan, Motherland Hotel (excerpts)
      1979: Exposing Despotism: Quasi-popular Storytelling and the Technique of Ironic Inversion
      Zakariyya Tamir, "The Day That Genghis Khan Got Angry"
      VII. Postmodernism
      1984: Magic Realism as In-Perspective: Modernity as Perceived by the Migrant Settler from the Village
      Latife Tekin, Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (excerpts)
      1985: Fact and Fiction: An Alexandrian Youth Remembered
      Idwar al-Kharrat, "Billowing White Clouds" (from City of Saffron)
      1990: Who, Actually, Are We? An Allegory about the Illusion of Originality and Authenticity
      Orhan Pamuk, "The Story of the Crown Prince" (from The Black Book)
      1993: A Thorn in the Flesh of the Nervous Jew: The Mizrahim and the Young Modern Israeli Middle-Class
      Orly Castel-Bloom, "Ummi fi shurl"
      1994: East-West Revisited: A Woman Labour Migrant's Perspective
      Hanan al-Shaykh, "I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops"
      VIII. Early 2000s
      2002: One House, But No Company: A Nation in Fragments
      Ala' al-Aswani, The Yacouhian Building (excerpts)
      2005: Imagining the Wheel of History Put into Reverse: What If Arabic Were the Language of the Masters?
      Almog Behar, "Ana min al yahoud
      -I'm one of the Jews"
      Appendix.
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