The Experimental Arabic Novel

Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant

von Stefan G. Meyer

341 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved with a different set of characteristics, depending upon the nature of their historical antecedents. This approach to postcolonial literature offers a way to compare and contrast it meaningfully with Western literature without relying on inherently Western literary models.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791447338
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2000
• Größe: 229 x 155 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press