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Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) by Tahia Khaled Abdel Nasser is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures. Taking a comparative approach, the book shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. It also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, it examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Tahia Khaled Abdel Nasser
Publisher
Edinburgh university press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781474420235
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Biography, Memoir

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