Contents -- Preface -- Biographical Notes on the Contributors -- Professor Issa J. Boullata: A Profile of an Intellectual Exile -- Literary Creativity and the Cultural Heritage: The atlāl in Modern Arabic Fiction -- Love, Death, and the Ghost of al-Khansā' : The Modern Female Poetic Voice in Fadwā Tuqān's Elegies for Her Brother Ibrāhīm -- The December Flower," a poem by Fadwā Tuqān. Translated from the Arabic -- Sindbad the Sailor and the Early Arabic Novel -- "The Infiltrators," a short story by Hannā Ibrāhīm. Translated from the Arabic -- Literary Creativity and Social Change: What has Happened to the Arab Psyche Since the Sixties? A Study in a few Literary Masks -- Going Beyond Socialist Realism, Getting Nowhere: Luwīs 'Awad's Cross-cultural Encounter with the Other -- "Only Women and Writing Can Save Us from Death": Erotic Empowering in the Poetry of Nizār Qabbānī (d. 1998) -- Creativity in the Novels of Emile Habiby, with Special Reference to Sa'īd the Pessoptimist -- Feminism in Revolution: The Case of Sahar Khalīfa -- History, Religion, and the Construction of Subjectivity in Elias Khoury's Rihlat Ghāndī al-Saghīr -- Living in Truth -- Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision and Reality -- Al-Balda al-Ukhrā: A Meta-Text Un-Veiled -- Dr. Ramzī and Mr. Sharaf: Sun'allāh Ibrāhīm and the Duplicity of the Literary Field -- Visual Thinking and the Arab Semantic Memory -- Explorations in Exile and Creativity: The Case of Arab-American Writers -- Gibran and the American Literary Canon: The Problem of The Prophet -- The Collapse of Totalizing Discourse and the Rise of Marginalized/Minority Discourses -- Committed Postmodernity: Muhammad Barrāda's The Game of Forgetting -- Postmoderning the Traditional in the Autobiography of Shaykh Kishk -- Iman Mersal: Egypt's Postmodern Poet -- Index.