The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions

Author:   Waïl S. Hassan (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199349791


Pages:   776
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Waïl S. Hassan (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.90cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 18.30cm
Weight:   1.361kg
ISBN:  

9780199349791


ISBN 10:   0199349797
Pages:   776
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Transliteration List of Contributors Introduction Part I: Continuities Chapter 1: Toward a Theory of the Arabic Novel Waïl S. Hassan Chapter 2: The Arabic Novel and History Roger Allen Chapter 3: The Medieval Turn in Modern Arabic Narrative Muhsin al-Musawi Chapter 4: The Novel and the Maqama Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila Chapter 5: A Thousand and One Nights and the Novel Richard van Leeuwen Chapter 6: Translations and Adaptations from the European Novel, 1835-1925 Samah Selim Chapter 7: Women and the Emergence of the Arabic Novel Marilyn Booth Part II: Developments Chapter 8: Algeria Debbie Cox Chapter 9: Bahrain Barbara Michalak-Pikulska & Waïl S. Hassan Chapter 10: Egypt to 1959 Roger Allen Chapter 11: Egypt since 1960 Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih Chapter 12: Eritrea Xavier Luffin Chapter 13: Iraq Haytham Bahoora Chapter 14: Jordan Walid Hamarneh Chapter 15: Kuwait Olatunbosun Ishaq Tijani Chapter 16: Lebanon Elise Salem Chapter 17: Libya Ali Abdullatif Ahmida Chapter 18: Mauritania J.S. Blalack Chapter 19: Morocco Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla Chapter 20: Oman Barbara Machalak-Pikulska & Waïl S. Hassan Chapter 21: Palestine Ibrahim Taha Chapter 22: Qatar Mohammad Mostafa Saleem Chapter 23: Saudi Arabia Moneera al-Ghadeer Chapter 24: Sub-Saharan Africa Xavier Luffin Chapter 25: Sudan and South Sudan Xavier Luffin Chapter 26: Syria Alexa Firat Chapter 27: Tunisia Douja Mamelouk Chapter 28: United Arab Emirates Rehab al-Kilani Chapter 29: Yemen Mark Wagner Part III: Diasporas Chapter 30: Argentina and Hispano-America Christina E. Civantos Chapter 31: Australia Nijmeh Hajjar Chapter 32: Brazil Waïl S. Hassan Chapter 33: Britain Geoffrey P. Nash Chapter 34: Canada Michelle Hartman Chapter 35: Chile Heba El Attar Chapter 36: France Laura Reeck Chapter 37: Germany Yesemin Mohammad Chapter 38: Italy Jennifer Burns Chapter 39: Netherlands Henriette Louwerse Chapter 40: Spain Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla & Laura Casielles Chapter 41: Sweden Corina Lacatus Chapter 42: United States Carol N. Fadda

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Wail Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome. * Journal of Arabic Literature *


""[T]he Handbook provides valuable insights into an issue that is undoubtedly one of the most challenging to deal with in the history of Arab/ic literature."" -- Francesca Bellino, Annali, Sezione Orientale ""Waïl Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome."" --Journal of Arabic Literature


"""[T]he Handbook provides valuable insights into an issue that is undoubtedly one of the most challenging to deal with in the history of Arab/ic literature."" -- Francesca Bellino, Annali, Sezione Orientale ""Waïl Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome."" --Journal of Arabic Literature"


Author Information

Waïl S. Hassan is a Professor of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (OUP, 2011).

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