Literary Visions of the Middle East
An anthology of canonical masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew fiction (mid-19th to early 21st centuries)
edited by Stephan Guth
This anthology by Stephan Guth assembles, in English translation, more than forty prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction, from the 19th century reform period until the early 2000s. Each of them can be regarded as having attained canonical status – not only because they display “typical” stylistic features of the periods to which their respective national literary historiographies usually ascribe them (“Reformism,” “Romanticism,” Socially critical Realism,” etc.), but also because they mirror, in an exemplary manner, the political and social situations in their countries at the times they were written.
This anthology by Stephan Guth assembles, in English translation, more than fourty prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction, from the 19th century reform period until the early 2000s. Each of them can be regarded as having attained canonical status – not only because they display “typical” stylistic features of the periods to which their respective national literary historiographies usually ascribe them (“Reformism,” “Romanticism,” Socially criticial Realism,” etc.), but also because they mirror, in an exemplary manner, the political and social situations in their countries at the times they were written. As unfiltered comments by Middle Easterners who lived through decisive phases of their societies’ development and experienced the ups and downs of their peoples’ histories, the voices that speak from this collection have the quality of representative sources that grant us immediate insight into Middle Eastern lifeworlds. They make us relive the conflicts, dreams, traumata, desires and emotions of Arab, Turkish, Iranian and Israeli society at certain points in history and give us access to the worldviews and creative imagination with which authors meet and process the changes and challenges they register. The introductory paragraphs preceding each text provide background knowledge and the “red thread,” their ensemble combining to a literary history of the Middle East in a nutshell.
- Edited by Stephan Guth
Other Titles in this Series
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
Landschaft und Utopie
Studien zur erzahlten Natur in der arabophonen und frankophonen Literatur Marokkos
Volume 19
Nationalismus auf der Buhne
Theater als Forum des national-sakularen Diskurses in der fruhen Pahlavi-Zeit
Volume 34
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
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