Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles by Tahia Abdel Nasser
Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, Nasser examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.
Clearly, Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles constitutes a significant intervention in Arab and autobiographical studiesThe original contribution of Nasser’s monograph is not limited to providing a fresh perspective on an “embargoed” genre from the Arab region, to use a Saidian term. An equally significant quality of Nasser’s study lies in her comparative approach through which she draws from the literary traditions of the Global South to analyze Arab literary autobiographical narratives.' -- Hiyem Cheurfa * Contemporary Review of the Middle East Journal *
The corpus is well-chosen, germane, and spans a range of texts that have never been studied together. The chapter breakdown is extremely interesting in the way it pairs language, location and genre. The methodological framework is highly original in that it reads this multilingual Arab corpus as a complex instance of a fully embodied comparative literature. Moreover, the framing dialectic that moves between the subject's solitude/ belonging is richly productive and offers a new way of thinking about the texts and the tradition they represent." -- Samah Selim, Rutgers University
The corpus is well-chosen, germane, and spans a range of texts that have never been studied together. The chapter breakdown is extremely interesting in the way it pairs language, location and genre. The methodological framework is highly original in that it reads this multilingual Arab corpus as a complex instance of a fully embodied comparative literature. Moreover, the framing dialectic that moves between the subject's solitude/ belonging is richly productive and offers a new way of thinking about the texts and the tradition they represent." -- Samah Selim, Rutgers University
Tahia Abdel Nasser is Assistant Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She has published in Comparative Literature Studies, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Journal of Arabic Literature, Dictionary of African Biography (2011), Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (2001) and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474444095 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474444091 |
| Title | Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles |
| Author | Tahia Abdel Nasser |
| Series | Edinburgh Studies In Modern Arabic Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2019-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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