Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean : Self-expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-classical Times to the Present Day.
Title:
Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean : Self-expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-classical Times to the Present Day.
Author:
Ostle, Robin.
ISBN:
9780857716736
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (405 pages)
Series:
Islamic Mediterranean
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Persons and Passions -- Part One: Subversive Strategies -- 1 Challenging Symbols of Power: Palaces and Castles in the 'Thousand and One Nights' -- 2 Fools and Rogues in Discourse and Disguise: Two Studies -- 3 Ibrahim Pasha and Sculpture as Subversion in Art -- Part Two: Self and Journey -- Preface: The Journey as Metaphor -- 4 Myths and Signs of Alienation Between 19th-Century Rihlat and Europe -- 5 Portrait of the Traveller as a Young Man: Mustafa Sami Efendi and his 'Essay on Europe' -- 6 Voyages of Self-definition: The Case of [Ahmad] Faris al-Shidyaq -- 7 The Journey in Two Arabic Novels -- Part Three: Individual, Novel and Nation -- 8 Bildungsroman, Individual and Society -- 9 Individual Sentiment and National Ideology -- 10 Mapping Arab Womanhood: Subject, Subjectivity and Identity Politics in the Biographies of Malak Hifni Nasif -- 11 Male Author, Female Protagonist: Aspects of LIterary Representation in Resat Nuri Guntekin's 'Calikusu' -- Part Four: Individual and Community -- 12 Marginalities in Palestinian Literature--Two Case Studies: Imil Habibi and Tawfiq Fayyad -- 13 The Representation of the Coptic Christians of Alexandria in 'Turabuha Za'faran' and 'Ya Banat Iskandariya' by Idwar Al-Kharrat -- 14 Marginalised Communities, Marginalised Individuals in Short Stories of Yusuf al-Sharuni -- 15 Language, Individual and Community in Lebanese Women's Literature Written in French -- Part Five: Individual, Space, Text -- 16 Redefining Urban Spaces in Cairo at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries -- 17 Imagining Beirut's Reconstructed City Centre -- 18 Text, Space and the Individual in the Poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab: Nationalism, Revolution and Subjectivity -- 19 Urban Change and Literary Transformation: The Egyptian Novel in the 1990s -- Index.
Abstract:
From the mountains of Lebanon to the shores of Turkey and North Africa, the Islamic Mediterranean has always been a dynamic cultural hub, where the stories and passions of East and West collide. In a sweeping survey spanning the first Arabic edition of the Thousand and One Nights to the novels of the 20th century, Robin Ostle pours through centuries of books, art and architecture to reveal what they tell us about the changing relationship between individual and society in this distinctive culture. In pre-modern literature, individuality was expressed through a series of comic subversions which, through their resolution, ultimately strengthened the social status quo. The great 19th century travelogues represented a more transgressive exploration of the boundaries of the self. This theme was continued in the cultural forms of the 20th century, with their emphasis on self-expression and emotional liberation, something increasingly defined in opposition to the state. 'Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean' unravels the emotions, ideas and power relationships which make up the cultural fabric of this fascinating region.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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