Ghassan Al Jaba I S Banana Fingers And Contemporary Arabic Prison Writings
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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.
Contagious
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Author : Priscilla Wald
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-09
Contagious written by Priscilla Wald and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div
Mourning
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Author : Eduardo Halfon
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Mourning written by Eduardo Halfon and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Fiction categories.
International Latino Book Award Winner Edward Lewis Wallant Award Winner Kirkus Prize Finalist Neustadt International Prize Finalist Balcones Fiction Prize Finalist PEN Translation Prize Longlist “A feat of literary acrobatics.” —New York Review of Books In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father’s Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South. Mourning is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss. Eduardo Halfon moved from Guatemala to the United States at the age of ten and attended school in South Florida and North Carolina. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, and Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, he is the author of two previous novels published in English: The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and Monastery, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.
The Politics Of The Palestinian Authority
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Author : Nigel Parsons
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-06-07
The Politics Of The Palestinian Authority written by Nigel Parsons and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-07 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the development of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from a liberation movement to a national authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Based on intensive fieldwork in the West Bank, Gaza and Cairo, Nigel Parsons analyzes Palestinian internal politics and their institutional-building by looking at the development of the PLO. Drawing on interviews with leading figures in the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, delegates to the negotiations with Israel, and the Palestinian political opposition, it is a timely account of the Israel/Palestine conflict from a Palestinian political perspective.
Inventing Home
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Author : Akram Fouad Khater
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-10-30
Inventing Home written by Akram Fouad Khater and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-30 with History categories.
Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration, the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle class. Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local "modernity" was invented in the process. Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region.
The Things We Ve Seen
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Author : Agustín Fernández Mallo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-15
The Things We Ve Seen written by Agustín Fernández Mallo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Fiction categories.
Written in three parts, War Trilogy is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations which offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of humanity, history, violence, art and science. The first part follows a writer who travels to the small, uninhabited island of San Simon, where he witnesses events which impel him on a journey across several continents, chasing the phantoms of nameless people devastated by violence. The second book is narrated by Kurt, the fourth astronaut who secretly accompanied Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins on their mythical first voyage to the moon. Now living in Miami, an ageing Kurt revisits the important chapters of his life: from serving in the Vietnam War to his memory of seeing earth from space. In the third part, a woman embarks on a walking tour of the Normandy coast with the goal of re-enacting, step by step, the memory of another trip taken years before. On her journey along the rugged coastline, she comes across a number of locals, but also thousands of refugees newly arrived on Europe's shores, whose stories she follows on the TV in her lodgings.
Goliath
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Author : Max Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Goliath written by Max Blumenthal and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process. As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics; where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties; where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as "demographic threats." Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth of Palestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military. Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past -- the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation. A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, Goliath is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism.
An Oriental Biographical Dictionary
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Author : Thomas William Beale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
An Oriental Biographical Dictionary written by Thomas William Beale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Africa, North categories.
Greater Syria
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Author : Daniel Pipes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-03-26
Greater Syria written by Daniel Pipes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-26 with History categories.
While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism--the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In Greater Syria, the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology.
Minor Detail
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Author : Adania Shibli
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Minor Detail written by Adania Shibli and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Fiction categories.
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.