This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, Salim Matar and the recently deceased Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih, whose seminal work Season of Migration to the North heralded a new phase in the modern Arabic literary tradition. The volume, which also includes two essays on aspects of intertextuality in Gulf literature, also discusses transformations of popular medieval literature such as the Alf Layla wa-Layla (the Thousand and One Nights) in modern Arabic literature.
Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967
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Table of Contents
Preface 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
Select bibliography
Index
Author Description
Luc Deheuvels is Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France. Professor Barbara Michalak-Pikulska is Head of the Arab Studies Department at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Professor Paul Starkey is Head of the Arabic Department, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World