Children of the Waters (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
132
Utgivningsdatum
2003-01-01
Förlag
University of Texas Press
Översättare
Marilyn Booth
Originalspråk
Arabic
Medarbetare
Salem, Ibtihal
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
209 x 154 x 8 mm
Vikt
195 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
22:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780292777736

Children of the Waters

av Ibtihal Salem
Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-01-01
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Ibtihal Salem's writing provides an excellent forum for studying both everyday life in Egypt and current literary experimentation in the Middle East. Her poignant pieces hover between the structure of story-telling, the visuality of vignettes, and the compression of poetry. They both record and evoke a literary ferment going on in Egypt today. Salem's writing of the last thirty years is lauded for its social messages also. Finding the expression of sexuality necessary to explicate problems of Egyptian identity, Salem often links poverty to gender marginality. Her heroines, however, celebrate the heritages that have shaped them, even as they resist certain aspects of them. Like many writers in Egypt, Salem honors traditional folktales, even as she deals with contemporary problems from class and economic perspectives. Marilyn Booth, one of the best translators of Arabic fiction working today, has dealt in her introduction to this collection with the unusual experimental form by examining Salem's craft as well as the contextual history surrounding the stories. Since Salem is writing "across genres," Booth helps the reader also by opening each piece with an explanatory comment, often quoting the author, and thus further illuminating Salem's portrayals of lives bounded by Egypt's watersthe Canal, the Nile, and the Mediterranean.
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Egyptian novelist Ibtihal Salem is currently experimenting with writing children's literature and translating literature from French for publication and for radio broadcast. Marilyn Booth is an independent scholar and freelance literary translator whose research and writing focus on gender and writing in Egypt, popular culture, and human rights. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Introduction Arabi Anticipation Behind Closed Doors Making Bets February The Work Gang Palm Trees and the Sea Shadow Puppets Tea Grown Cold A Toast to the Full Moon Cusp Bags of Candy Rage My Friend "Patriot" Little Things Don't Lie Crumbs An Empty Tin Can The Shape of Prison The Handsomest Portrait She Had Ever Seen Rape Everyday Duty Threads of Thought Open Wound Songs from the Tree's Core Pangs Fire Kite Full of Color Lost Harbor Song of the Wounded Heart Glass Barricades Nothing at All Bitter Mirth Short-lived Moments Passage The Boot

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