Selected Studies in Modern Arabic Narrative: History, Genre, Translation
Synopsis
No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, completed in 1968 under the supervision of Mustafa Badawi. That same year, he took a position in Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the oldest professorial post in Arabic in the United States. Roger Allen has been phenomenally prolific: fifty books and translations, two hundred articles and counting—on Arabic language pedagogy, on translation, on Arabic literary history, criticism and literature. He is also one of the most decorated and acclaimed translators of Arabic literature. The present volume brings together sixteen of Roger Allen’s articles on modern Arabic narrative, with a focus on genre, translation, and literary history, and features analyses of the works of Rashid Abu Jadrah, Bensalem Himmich, Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, and Tayeb Salih.
Chapters
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Table of Contents
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Arabic Literature Studies: A Retrospect (2009)
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The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic (1997)
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Sindbad the Sailor and the Early Arabic Novel (2000)
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The Novella in ArabicA Study in Fictional Genres (1986)
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The Arabic Short Story and the Status of Women (1995)
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Arabic Fiction and the Quest for Freedom (1995)
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Arabic Fiction’s Relationship with Its PastIntertextuality and Retrospect Post-1967 (2006)
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The Impact of the Translated TextThe Case of Najīb Maḥfūẓ’s Novels, with Special Emphasis on The Trilogy (1993)
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Najīb Maḥfūẓ’s Awlād ḤāratināA History and Interpretation (2011)
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Autobiography and MemoryMaḥfūẓ’s Aṣdāʾ al-sīra al-dhātiyya (1998)
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The Autobiography of Yūsuf Idrīs? (2002)
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ʿUrs al-Zayn by al-Ṭayyib ṢāliḥTradition and Change (2001)
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Historiography as NovelBenSalim Himmich’s Al-ʿAllāma (2008)
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Translation TranslatedRashīd Abū Jadra’s Maʿrakat al-Zuqāq (1997)
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Fiction and PublicsThe Emergence of the “Arabic Bestseller” (2009)
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Translation and CultureTheory and Practice (2004)
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Bibliography of Articles by Roger Allen on Modern Arabic Narrative
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Index of Proper Names
