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100	1		_aAlbers, Yvonne _4auth
700	1		_aPannewick, Friederike _4edt
700	1		_aKhalil, Georges _4edt
700	1		_aPannewick, Friederike _4oth
700	1		_aKhalil, Georges _4oth
245	1	0	_aCommitment and Beyond : Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s
260			_bDr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden _c2015
300			_a1 electronic resource (356 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aThis book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing with a cause’ have been shaped, contested, re-actualized since the 1940s until today. Starting with the present day, it looks at literary practices during the ‘Arab Spring,’ then tracks back to the beginnings of literary politicization during the 1940s and 1950s, subsequently crosses the historical caesura of the late 1960s to consider competing re-conceptualizations of literary engagement in the 1970s and 1980s, before finally returning to the 1990s through to 2011. The chapters reexamine critically both current and historical notions of the political in modern Arabic literature as well as the legacy of iltizām as a term and an agenda. They discuss literary commitment not solely as a (completed) period in Arabic literary history but also as a vivid, changing and continuing idea that questions the role of literature and the author in and for a society. Even though a number of seminal research volumes have been published on the conceptual history of Arab literary engagement in English language, there remain no book-length studies on the ongoing relationship between the literary and the political from the 1940s until today. Therefore, what makes this volume unique and outstanding is, firstly, its point of departure in approaching the question of the ‘new political’ in Arabic literature through an interrogation of iltizām’s longevity as both a historically adaptable and adaptive literary concept—something which the ‘Arab Spring’ has forcefully brought back to our minds. Secondly, this volume brings together the attempts, propositions, and research results of both established and upcoming scholars in the field of modern Arab literary and cultural history, all of whom have initiated and undertaken exceptional contributions regarding the issue. As such, this book fills a gap in the field of Arabic Literary Studies as it explicitly reconsiders the legacy of Arab literary commitment and its manifold and heterogeneous conceptions in the light of recent and present day developments.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aLiterary studies: general _2bicssc
650		7	_aPolitics & government _2bicssc
650		7	_a20th century _2bicssc
650		7	_a21st century _2bicssc
650		7	_aArabic _2bicssc
653			_aArabic literature
653			_aPolitical studies of the Arab World
653			_aContemporary history
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