Borders and Beyond
Crossings and Transitions in Modern Arabic Literature
edited by Kerstin Eksell and Stephan Guth
Paperback (Published)
(February 2012)
ISBN: 9783447066457
6.65 x 9.49 inches
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Borders and Beyond edited by Kerstin Eksell and Stephan Guth, is the result of a Lebanese-Scandinavian cooperation examining various aspects of liminality, hybridity and border-crossing in Arabic literature and culture. Most of the contributions deal with contemporary phenomena, such as post-war Lebanon, and especially Beirut, as a border-zone par excellence; the oscillating between identity and difference/alienation in exile; the ambiguity of migrant existences between loss (of the familiar) and profit (from the new, unfamiliar, yet promising), between utopia and dystopia, inside and outside perspectives; between reality and the intrusion of magic, or the surreal, into the reality of precarious lives. But contemporary Arabic literature itself too has stepped across the borders and begun to lead a ‘life beyond’, as part of a global continuum, with all the mergings and contrasts this entails. The dynamics of change and transition are however not restricted to the contemporary scene. Thus, one contribution follows the transformations of the Andalusian legend across the Mediterranean as a process of transcultural migration and a literary subgenre’s wandering through time and space. Another study highlights the interaction between incoming new concepts like ‘novel’ or ‘fiction’ and old indigenous counterparts such as riwaya. The volume focuses on the very processes of change in the literary landscape, the moments of transition from one stage to another, when established traditions are exposed to new influences which cause generic transformations and produce new syntheses.
- Edited by Kerstin Eksell
- Edited by Stephan Guth
Other Titles in this Series
Arabic Literature in a Posthuman World
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL), May 2016, Oslo
Volume 31
From New Values to New Aesthetics
Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature 1. From Modernism to the 1980s
Volume 20.1
From New Values to New Aesthetics
Turning Points in Modern Arabic 2. Postmodernism and Thereafter
Volume 20.2
Der turkische Roman Eine Literaturgeschichte in Essays
Band 1: Von Ahmet Mithat bis A.H. Tanpinar
Volume 22.1
Promethean Encounters
Representation of the Intellectual in the Modern Turkish Novel of the 1970s
Volume 27
Geschichte der Turkischen Literatur in Dokumenten
Hintergrunde und Materialien zur Turkischen Bibliothek
Volume 15
Many Ways of Speaking About the Self
Middle Eastern Ego-Documents in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (14th-20th Century)
Volume 18
Pokemon goes Alhambra
Sprachideologie und Popularkultur in maghrebinisch-arabischer Erzahlprosa
Volume 35
Nationalismus auf der Buhne
Theater als Forum des national-sakularen Diskurses in der fruhen Pahlavi-Zeit
Volume 34
Landschaft und Utopie
Studien zur erzahlten Natur in der arabophonen und frankophonen Literatur Marokkos
Volume 19
Literary Visions of the Middle East
An anthology of canonical masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew fiction (mid-19th to early 21st centuries)
Volume 29
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