Contemporary Arab Women Writers

Cultural Expression in Context

By Anastasia Valassopoulos

This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship...

Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Contemporary Arab Fiction

Innovation from Rama to Yalu

By Fabio Caiani

This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary...

Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Soon Come Home to This Island

West Indians in British Children's Literature

By Karen Sands-O'Connor

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional...

Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Arab Representations of the Occident

East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction

By Rasheed El-Enany

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research...

Published March 15th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

By Samah Selim

The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt....

Published April 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Modern Greek Literature

Critical Essays

Edited by Gregory Nagy, Anna Stavrakopoulou

The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The...

Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.

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A Maldivian Dictionary

By Christopher Reynolds

Maldivian (also known as Divehi) is spoken on the Maldive Islands located off the southwest tip of India in the Indian Ocean. It is an...

Published April 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature

By Dr Gwendolyn Leick, Gwendolyn Leick

Published April 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Persian Book of Kings

An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

By B W. Robinson, B. W. Robinson

The Shahnama, written in the tenth century by Firdawsi, is the national epic poem of Persia. It chronicles at great length (nine volumes in the...

Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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Jorge Amado

New Critical Essays

Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal

Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking...

Published April 19th 2001 by Routledge.

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