The Experimental Arabic Novel
Book Details
Author(s)Stefan G. Meyer
PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
ISBN / ASIN0791447340
ISBN-139780791447345
AvailabilityUsually ships in 9 to 13 days
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved with a different set of characteristics, depending upon the nature of their historical antecedents. This approach to postcolonial literature offers a way to compare and contrast it meaningfully with Western literature without relying on inherently Western literary models.
