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Book SynopsisDeals with the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, this title brings together essays on a range of writers from different parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, and Salim Matar.
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements
1. Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967 – Roger Allen
2. The narrative of the ship: al-Mu’aqqit, Mahfuz, and Jabra – Richard van Leeuwen
3. D’arbes et de lunes: parcours intertextuel dans la littérature arabe contemporaine –Luc-Willy Deheuvels
4. Intertextuality gone awry? The mysterious (dis)appearance of ‘tradition’ in the Arabic novel – Wen-Chin Ouyang
5. Appropriating, or secretly undermining, the secular literary heritage? Distant echoes of Mawsim al-Hijra in a Muslim writer’s novel: Leila Aboulela, The translator – Stephan Guth
6. Intertexte et mémoire dans l’écriture Romanesque de Rabi Jabir: essai sur le roman Ralph Rizqallah fi ‘l-mir’at – Sobhi Boustani
7. Transformations of the Thousand and One Nights: Zakariyya Tamir’s ‘Shahriyar wa-Shahrazad’ and Muhammad Jibril’s Zahrat al-Sabah – Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck
8. Intertextual and intratextual processes in al-Malik huwa al’malik by Sacd Allah Wannus – Rosella Dorigo
9. From intertext to mixed media: the case of Edwar al-Kharrat – Robin C. Ostle
10. Intertextuality and the Arabic literary tradition in Edwar al-Kharrat’s Stones of Bobello – Paul Starkey
11. The past in the present: aspects of intertextuality in modern literature in the Gulf ¬– Gail Ramsay
12. The mosaic of quotations and the labyrinth of interpretations: the problem of intertextuality in the modern literature of the Gulf – Barbara Michelak-Pikulska
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