The modern Arabic short story : Shahrazad returns
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The modern Arabic short story : Shahrazad returns
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
2nd ed., rev. and expanded
- : hardback
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Note
Bibliography: p. 279-281
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This fully revised second edition of The Modern Arabic Short Story is a unique anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been beautifully translated and carefully collected in this unique updated edition. The Modern Arabic Short Story provides a valuable introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition Introduction to the Second Edition PART ONE: A CRITICAL STUDY The Situation of the Short Story Sindbad
- The Other Voyage The Old Sindbad: An Image of Fellowship and Settlement The Modern Sindbad: A Portrait of a Bleak House The Sindbad Poetry of the Short Story Towards a Modern Sensibility 'Sindbad the Porter': A House with a View 'The Faces of Sindbad': A House in Exile 'Sindbad on his Eighth Voyage': A House Restored 'The Sindbad City': Out of Place 'The Seven Voyages of Sindbad': A Nightmare Voyage 'Abd Allah Samsa in Waqwaq Island': Sindbad Persecuted 'Sindbad' from 'Old Sorrows
- Five Tales from The Arabian Nights ': Sindbad on Sale Shahrazad: The Eternal Perspective 'Spring in the Ashes': The Hope of Regeneration 'The Blue Charm and the Return of Jubaynah': The Vision of Return 'The Orphans' Cow': Alienation and Dream 'Abu-Zayd Surrenders': Struggle for Survival 'Shatir Hasan and the Season of Drought': Surviving the Struggle Aladdin's Lamp without Oil 'Night 1002': Mirror with No Light 'An Oil Slick': A Broken Mirror on the Sea 'Antarah Ibn Zabibah: Faris without Furusiyyah Conclusion PART TWO: A SELECTION OF TEXTS 'The Death of Sindbad
- Michael 'Aflaq 'Sindbad and his Mistress
- Michael 'Aflaq 'Sindbad the Porter'
- Najib Surur 'Sindbad on his Eighth Voyage'
- Khalil Hawi 'The Sindbad City'
- Badr al-Sayyab 'Abd Allah Samsa in Waqwaq Island'
- Mustafa al-Masnawi 'Sindbad' from 'Old Sorrows
- Five Tales from the Arabian Nights'
- Mohammad al-Mansi Qandil 'Spring in the Ashes'
- Zakariyya Tamir 'The Blue Charm and the Return of Jubaynah'
- Emile Habibi 'The Orphan's Cow'
- Mahmud Shuqair 'Abu-Zayd Surrenders'
- Hassan Muhassib 'Shatir Hassan and the Season of Drought'
- Akram Haniyyah 'Night 1002'
- Riyad al-Marzuqi 'An Oil Slick'
- Sulayman Shatti 'Antarah Ibn Zabibah
- Faysal Khartash Glossary Bibliography Index
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