Arabic Prison Literature
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Arabic Prison Literature
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Author : Geula Elimelekh
language : en
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Release Date : 2014
Arabic Prison Literature written by Geula Elimelekh and has been published by Harrassowitz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Arabic literature categories.
Arabic Prison Literature: Resistance, Torture, Alienation, and Freedom introduces prison literature through the prism of works written by Arab authors in the second half of the twentieth century. Geula Elimelekh's unique approach largely eschews the socio-political-historical review of this subgenre of Arabic political literature. Instead, she delves deeply and humanely into a psychological, critical literary, and existentialist-philosophical analysis of the authors and characters whose lives are scarred and ruined by prisons and torment. This book holds nothing back of the atrocities and horrors that authors like 'Abd al-Rahman Munif in East of the Mediterranean, Sun'Allah 'Ibrahim in That Smell, Sharif Hatatah in The Eye with the Metal Eyelid, and Nabil Sulayman in The Prison sought to bring to the attention of the Arab public and the world. What happens within the confines of the political prison and to the families of the prisoners and torturers is exposed in this literature through a combination of human episodes described with artistic sensitivity of the highest calibre. This body of literature is doubly important, because on the one hand it demands a re-examination of the Arab culture and mind-set that fosters brutal, patriarchal, self-serving regimes that crush freedom and human rights, while on the other it accurately exposes the inhuman conditions of daily life in prison. It is precisely at this time - during the on-going Arab spring - when the historical rhythms of earlier revolutions and uprisings appear to be repeating themselves that the paradoxical duality of prison literature again calls out for the long overdue retrospective found between these covers.
Ghassan Al Jaba I S Banana Fingers And Contemporary Arabic Prison Writings
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Author : Ahmad Alswaid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Ghassan Al Jaba I S Banana Fingers And Contemporary Arabic Prison Writings written by Ahmad Alswaid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This dissertation expands the definition of contemporary prison writings in Arabic literature to include works, written by ex-political prisoners, that are experimental and/or do not directly reference the prison experience. By examining Ghassan al-Jaba'i's Banana Fingers (Asabi' al-Mawz) and other Arabic literary works produced as a result of political imprisonment after 1960s, this project demonstrates that contemporary Arabic prison writings employ experimental aspects that challenge conventional views of what prison is and what it means to be a prisoner. This project shows that Arabic prison writings do not necessarily need to be realistic. The imaginative and fantastical are equally important. Moreover, this project shows that contemporary Arabic prison writings can tell stories whose function is not to educate the audience or to call for political action against state oppression but rather to aesthetically entertain and even to alienate the audience by manipulating literary devices in a manner that is unconventional and experimental. Therefore, this project examines contemporary prison writings in Arabic literature as a chain of aesthetic interventions against conventional views of the nature and function of Arabic prison writings. This project also includes an English translation of al-Jaba'i's Banana Fingers. While working on this translation, I have regularly consulted with al-Jaba'i. In this translation, I have not sought to paraphrase al-Jaba'i's short stories to make them more accessible and intelligible to the English-speaking reader. Instead, I have attempted to capture what al-Jaba'i said, precisely how he said it. I have also aimed at recreating his use of experimental and subversive features, particularly his use of the alienation effect.
The Cat Who Taught Me How To Fly
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Author : Hashem Gharaibeh
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
The Cat Who Taught Me How To Fly written by Hashem Gharaibeh and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In his masterpiece The Cat Who Taught Me How to Fly, Hashem Gharaibeh tells the moving story of a political prisoner during Jordan’s martial law era, which spanned from 1967 to 1989. Gharaibeh defies the taboos of politics, sex, and religion to tell a thrilling and brutally honest story about the horrors and insanities of everyday life in an Arab prison. At once both a novel and an autobiography, the author draws from his own experiences as a Jordanian youth arrested and imprisoned for nearly a decade for his affiliation with the Jordanian Communist Party. The novel uniquely portrays prison culture intertwined with tribal, ideological, and political perspectives to explain both mundane and esoteric aspects of prison life in this time and era, illustrating an experience that is traumatic, humane, and inspiring. A heartwrenching story of learning, survival, and the quest for the freedom of thought is told with powerful defiance and grace, exposing us to human frailty, strength, and one man’s dream to soar beyond the walls of prison, society, and self.
The Cat Who Taught Me How To Fly
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Author : Hāshim Gharāyibah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Cat Who Taught Me How To Fly written by Hāshim Gharāyibah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
In his masterpiece The Cat Who Taught Me How to Fly, Hashem Gharaibeh tells the moving story of a political prisoner during Jordan's martial law era, which spanned from 1967 to 1989. Gharaibeh defies the taboos of politics, sex, and religion to tell a thrilling and brutally honest story about the horrors and insanities of everyday life in an Arab prison. At once both a novel and an autobiography, the author draws from his own experiences as a Jordanian youth arrested and imprisoned for nearly a decade for his affiliation with the Jordanian Communist Party. The novel uniquely portrays prison culture intertwined with tribal, ideological, and political perspectives to explain both mundane and esoteric aspects of prison life in this time and era, illustrating an experience that is traumatic, humane, and inspiring. A heartwrenching story of learning, survival, and the quest for the freedom of thought is told with powerful defiance and grace, exposing us to human frailty, strength, and one man's dream to soar beyond the walls of prison, society, and self.
Readings In Syrian Prison Literature
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Author : R. Shareah Taleghani
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-21
Readings In Syrian Prison Literature written by R. Shareah Taleghani and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-21 with Social Science categories.
The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, and forgotten. In the eras of Hafiz al-Asad and his son Bashar, Syrian political dissidents have written extensively about their experiences of detention, both while in prison and afterwards. This body of writing, largely untranslated into English, is essential to understanding the oppositional political culture among dissidents since the 1970s—a culture that laid the foundation for the 2011 Syrian Revolution. The emergence of prison literature as a specific genre helped articulate opposition to authoritarian states, including the Asad regime. However, the significance of Syrian prison literature goes beyond a form of witnessing, expressing creative opposition, and illuminating the larger cultural and historical backstory of the Syrian uprising. Prison literature, in all its diversity, challenges the narrative structures and conventional language of human rights. In doing so, prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani’s groundbreaking work explores prison writing’s critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
East Of Mediterranean
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Author : Abdelrahman Munif
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-05-01
East Of Mediterranean written by Abdelrahman Munif and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with categories.
That Smell And Notes From Prison
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Author : Sonallah Ibrahim
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-19
That Smell And Notes From Prison written by Sonallah Ibrahim and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Fiction categories.
That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city. That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential novels written in Arabic since WWII. Composed after a five-year term in prison, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he wanders through Cairo, adrift in his native city. Living under house arrest, he tries to write of his tortuous experience, but instead smokes, spies on the neighbors, visits old lovers, and marvels at Egypt’s new consumer culture. Published in 1966, That Smell was immediately banned and the print-run confiscated. The original, uncensored version did not appear in Egypt for another twenty years. For this edition, translator Robyn Creswell has also included an annotated selection of the author’s Notes from Prison, Ibrahim’s prison diaries—a personal archive comprising hundreds of handwritten notes copied onto Bafra-brand cigarette papers and smuggled out of jail. These stark, intense writings shed unexpected light on the sources and motives of Ibrahim’s groundbreaking novel. Also included in this edition is Ibrahim’s celebrated essay about the writing and reception of That Smell.
The Prison Of Life
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Author : Tawfīq Ḥakīm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Prison Of Life written by Tawfīq Ḥakīm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Al-Hakim, Tawfiq, 1899-1987 categories.
Tawfiq al-Hakim, born probably in 1899, was, with such writters as Naguib Mahfouz and Taha Hussein, one of the great formative figures of twentieth-century Egyptian literature. Immensly prolific and versatile, he was the first Arab to acquire a literary reputation as a dramatist, and was the author of more than seventy plays of remarkable variety, as well as of a number of novels, short stories, and essays. He died in 1987. This autobiographical essay, written in the simple and direct style leavened with humor for which Tawfiq al-Hakim is justly renowned, covers the early part of his iife until the mid-1930s. It represents an attempt by the author to understand himself, largely in terms of his genetic inheritance. Some readers may sense that at the heart of his relationship with his father was a demon he ultimately feared to face, but his candor produces a number of touching self-revelations. Even more substantial is the all too rare witness to the character of family and social relations in Egypt in the first quarter of the twentieth century. But most arresting and valuable of all are the author's reminiscences about the Egyptian theater in the 1920s and 1930s, providing for the historian of Arabic literature a mine of firsthand information.
The Golden Chariot
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Author : Salwa Bakr
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2008
The Golden Chariot written by Salwa Bakr and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
A new AUC Press edition from the author of The Man from Bashmour
I Jaam
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Author : Sinan Antoon
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2007
I Jaam written by Sinan Antoon and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
A risky and risqué prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam.