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Article: Genre and Language in Modern Arabic Literature.
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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by Sasson Somekh. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1991. Ppxii + 141, bibliography, index.
This is an intelligent and in many respects original and concisely written study of one of the fundamental issues in modern Arabic literature, namely the question of language. It is an issue which has preoccupied the minds of most Arab writers for more than a century and it cannot be said, even now, that it has been resolved once and for all, as witness the pronouncements on the subject made by the distinguished novelist |Abd al-Rahman Munif in his latest book, al-Katib wa 'l-Manfa (The Writer and Exile), Beirut 1992. The problem has arisen largely from the peculiar situation ...