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Nostalgia In Anglophone Arab Literature - Nationalism, Identity And Diaspora

by Tasnim Qutait

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and identity. Against the critical tendency to dismiss nostalgia as a sentimental trope of immigrant narratives, Qutait sheds light on the creative uses to which it is put in the works of Rabih Alameddine, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Leila Aboulela, Randa Jarrar, Rawi Hage, and others. Arguing for the necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present. Qutait situates Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter ranging from the Islamic golden age, the era of anti-colonial struggle, the failures of the postcolonial state and of pan-Arabism, and the perennial issue of the diaspora''s relationship to the homeland. Making a contribution to the transnational turn in memory studies while focusing on a region underrepresented in this field, this book will be of interest for researchers interested in cultural memory, postcolonial studies and the literatures of the Middle East.
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Nostalgia In Anglophone Arab Literature - Nationalism, Identity And Diaspora

by Tasnim Qutait

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and identity. Against the critical tendency to dismiss nostalgia as a sentimental trope of immigrant narratives, Qutait sheds light on the creative uses to which it is put in the works of Rabih Alameddine, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Leila Aboulela, Randa Jarrar, Rawi Hage, and others. Arguing for the necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present. Qutait situates Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter ranging from the Islamic golden age, the era of anti-colonial struggle, the failures of the postcolonial state and of pan-Arabism, and the perennial issue of the diaspora''s relationship to the homeland. Making a contribution to the transnational turn in memory studies while focusing on a region underrepresented in this field, this book will be of interest for researchers interested in cultural memory, postcolonial studies and the literatures of the Middle East.
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Writing Queer Identities In Morocco - Abdellah Taïa And Moroccan Committed Literature

by Tina Dransfeldt Christensen

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country''s anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa''s art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco. Placing key novels such as Salvation Army and Infidels in dialogue with Moroccan writers including Driss Chraïbi and Abdelkebir Khatibi, she shows how Taïa draws upon a long tradition of politically committed art in Morocco to subvert traditional notions of heteronormativity. By giving space to silenced or otherwise marginalised voices, she shows how his writings offer a powerful critique of discourses of class, authenticity, culture and nationality in Morocco and North Africa.
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Writing Queer Identities In Morocco - Abdellah Taïa And Moroccan Committed Literature

by Tina Dransfeldt Christensen

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country''s anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt Christensen examines Taïa''s art and activism in the context of the wider debates around sexuality in Morocco. Placing key novels such as Salvation Army and Infidels in dialogue with Moroccan writers including Driss Chraïbi and Abdelkebir Khatibi, she shows how Taïa draws upon a long tradition of politically committed art in Morocco to subvert traditional notions of heteronormativity. By giving space to silenced or otherwise marginalised voices, she shows how his writings offer a powerful critique of discourses of class, authenticity, culture and nationality in Morocco and North Africa.
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Creative Radicalism In The Middle East - Culture And The Arab Left After The Uprisings

by Caroline Rooney

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Addressing the question of how neoliberal ideology has served to conflate the radical left with extremism, this book examines how the Arab left has asserted itself in the context of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism during and after the Arab uprisings. It examines how the Arab cultural left has offered a critique of the signifying practices of political hegemonies in the region and argues that though creative expression as constituted in the very language of the Arab uprisings, it has put forward its own alternatives Using a wide array of texts and sources, both Arab and non-Arab, the opening chapters of the book identify how ethical and radical values pertaining to sociality are co-opted by political leaders in the Middle East and turned into jargon. Later chapters outline resistance to this co-option through a poetics of inter-subjectivity that takes structures of feeling into account, ranging from disappointment, despair and distrust, to dignity, solidarity and reconfigured senses of the sacred. In showing how psychological and affective states relate to signifying practices, the book offers an original conceptual framework for differentiating ''radicalization'' from the creative radicalism of the Arab avant-garde.
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Creative Radicalism In The Middle East - Culture And The Arab Left After The Uprisings

by Caroline Rooney

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Addressing the question of how neoliberal ideology has served to conflate the radical left with extremism, this book examines how the Arab left has asserted itself in the context of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism during and after the Arab uprisings. It examines how the Arab cultural left has offered a critique of the signifying practices of political hegemonies in the region and argues that though creative expression as constituted in the very language of the Arab uprisings, it has put forward its own alternatives Using a wide array of texts and sources, both Arab and non-Arab, the opening chapters of the book identify how ethical and radical values pertaining to sociality are co-opted by political leaders in the Middle East and turned into jargon. Later chapters outline resistance to this co-option through a poetics of inter-subjectivity that takes structures of feeling into account, ranging from disappointment, despair and distrust, to dignity, solidarity and reconfigured senses of the sacred. In showing how psychological and affective states relate to signifying practices, the book offers an original conceptual framework for differentiating ''radicalization'' from the creative radicalism of the Arab avant-garde.
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Edward Said'S Concept Of Exile - Identity And Cultural Migration In The Middle East

by Rehnuma Sazzad

155,03€ + 10% CARD

 Contributes to scholarship on Edward Said by providing a comprehensive account of his theory of exile
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Imagining Kurdistan - Identity, Culture And Society

by Zlem Bel Im Galip

166,95€ + 10% CARD

 Unique look at Kurdish culture and identity outside of geographical boundaries
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Literature Of The Iranian Diaspora - Meaning And Identity Since The Islamic Revolution

by Sanaz Fotouhi

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they emerged.
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Mahmoud Darwish - Literature And The Politics Of Palestinian Identity

by Muna Abu Eid

155,03€ + 10% CARD

 The first comprehensive biography of the most important and most influential Palestinian poet which is intertwined with key themes relating to Palestinian history, national identity and politics.
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Edward Said'S Concept Of Exile - Identity And Cultural Migration In The Middle East

by Rehnuma Sazzad

175,74€ + 10% CARD

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 Contributes to scholarship on Edward Said by providing a comprehensive account of his theory of exile
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Beirut, Imagining The City - Space And Place In Lebanese Literature

by Ghenwa Hayek

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 Hayek charts the rise to cultural prominence of the city of Beirut as a significant player in shaping perceptions of Lebanese culture and identity - not only following the destruction of the city-centre during the country's fifteen-year civil war, as is mostly assumed in recent scholarship - but over a century.
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Literature Of The Lebanese Diaspora - Representations Of Place And Transnational Identity

by Jumana Bayeh

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex relationships between place, displacement and belonging, and illuminates the ways in which these writings have shaped a global Lebanese identity.
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Mahmoud Darwish - Literature And The Politics Of Palestinian Identity

by Muna Abu Eid

175,74€ + 10% CARD

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 The first comprehensive biography of the most important and most influential Palestinian poet which is intertwined with key themes relating to Palestinian history, national identity and politics.
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The Literature Of The Iranian Diaspora - Meaning And Identity Since The Islamic Revolution

by Sanaz Fotouhi

189,26€ + 10% CARD

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 Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they emerged.
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Creative Radicalism In The Middle East - Culture And The Arab Left After The Uprisings

by Professor Caroline (University Of Kent, Uk) Rooney

33,79€ + 10% CARD

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Nostalgia In Anglophone Arab Literature - Nationalism, Identity And Diaspora

by Tasnim (Uppsala University, Sweden) Qutait

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Writing Queer Identities In Morocco - Abdellah Taia And Moroccan Committed Literature

by Tina Dransfeldt (Roskilde University, Denmark) Christensen

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Peacebuilding In Cyprus - Ethno-Federal Approaches And Security In The Cyprus Conflict

by Pavlos Ioannis (University Of Cyprus) Koktsidis

103,42€

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Seven Mercies

by Elizabeth May e L. R. Lam

27,04€

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Endless Song

by Joshua Phillip Johnson

36,50€

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Developmental Science - An Introductory Approach

by James Graham

157,08€

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The Literature Of The Iranian Diaspora - Meaning And Identity Since The Islamic Revolution

by Sanaz Fotouhi

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Representing Iran In East Germany - Ideology And The Media In The German Democratic Republic

by Dr Edgar Klusener

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