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Autor:
Charis Olszok
Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era, focusing on encounters between humans, anima
Autor:
Charis Olszok
Publikováno v:
Middle Eastern Literatures. 23:235-241
Manṣūr Būshnāf (b. 1954) is a Libyan novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1970s, after moving from his native Tarhuna to Tripoli. In the late 1970s, he was imprisoned along with numerou...
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2021.1919413
https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2021.1919413
Autor:
Charis Olszok
In Chapter Four, I move to novels of the city, depicting the heart of Libya’s social and political transformations, while, like the novel of the wilderness, marked by hunger and homelessness, in emotional rather than literal terms. I focus on novel
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https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457453.003.0005
Autor:
Charis Olszok
In conclusion, I point to new literary trends that have emerged since the collapse of Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, exploring how authors have expressed the frustration of post-revolutionary hopes, and the nation’s increased instability and fragmenta
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https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457453.003.0008
Autor:
Charis Olszok
In Chapter Five, I identify the significance of the child’s perspective, and the form of the Bildungsroman. In the first of two chapters addressing this theme, I examine novels written in Arabic, with my main analyses focussing on Aḥmad Yūsuf
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Autor:
Charis Olszok
My introduction reviews the development of modern Libyan fiction, framing its marginality within wider Arabic literature through the nation’s history of poverty and oppression. Brief analysis of famous oral qaṣīda, ‘mā bī maraḍ’ (‘My o
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Autor:
Charis Olszok
Chapter Two continues its focus on al-Nayhūm, al-Faqīh and al-Kūnī, turning to mythic and primordial imaginings, which reformulate narratives of creation, fall and evolution. I turn to the later work of the three authors, in which the primordial
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https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457453.003.0003
Autor:
Charis Olszok
This is the first book in English-language scholarship to introduce the development of the Libyan novel through in-depth analyses of its main authors, and broader reference to many others. It is also the first to engage Arabic literature with the ‘
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https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457453.001.0001
Autor:
Charis Olszok
Chapter One identifies rural narratives of survival as a particularly defining theme of the Libyan novel. Al-Nayhūm’s Min Makka ilā hunā (1970; From Mecca to Here), widely considered as the first cohesive Libyan novel, published at the dawn of G
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Autor:
Charis Olszok
Chapter Three bridges the early focus on al-Nayhūm, al-Faqīh and al-Kūnī to a new generation of authors, bringing together al-Kūnī’s al-Tibr (1989; Gold Dust) with al-Tābūt (2006; The Coffin) and al-Khawf abqānī ḥayyan (2008; Fear Kept
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