著者名：

Guth, Stephan (ed.)

出版元：

Harrassowitz

頁数：

viii,544p

刊行年：

2019

ISBN：

9783447111065

Middle Eastern fiction—Literature -- History and criticism

This anthology by Stephan Guth assembles, in English translation, more than fourty prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction, from the 19th century reform period until the early 2000s. Each of them can be regarded as having attained canonical status – not only be-cause they display “typical” stylistic features of the periods to which their respective national literary historiographies usually ascribe them "Reformism," "Romanticism," So-cially criticial Realism," etc.), but also because they mirror, in an exemplary manner, the political and social situations in their countries at the times they were written.

Contents
Introduction .........................................................................1
I The Beginnings of Modern Literature in the Middle East:The Reform Period
1857 The Midde East Could Look Very Different From Now: An Early Utopia
→ Mirza Fatali Akhundov, “The Stars Were Deceived” ...................23
1859 Ridiculing Dated Tradition: Theatre as the School of the Nation
→ İbrāhīm Şināsī, “The Wedding of a Poet” ................................39
II Fin-de-siècle/Pre-World War I
1898– Precious Tradition: Neo-Classicism Countering Cultural Domination
→ Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, “The Court of Appeal” (from What ʿĪsà Ibn Hishām Told Us) .................................... 51
1908 Homeless in a New Home: The Tragedy of the Aliyah
→ Shmuel Yosef Agnon, “Agunot” .......................................... 61
Down with Despotism! The Observer-Philosopher’s Contemplations and Outcry
→ Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, “The Cry of the Graves” ......................... 71
1910 Utopia, Fatalist Contemplation, and Morality: The Nobility of the Powerless
→ Muṣṭafà Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī, “The Happy City”, “A White Hair”, “Time’s Lesson” ............................................................. 78
1919 Reformism Defeated: The Seductive Pleasures of the Old System
→ Refīḳ Ḫālid Ḳarāy, “The Peach Orchards” ..............................91
1919? Reclaiming Discursive Hegemony from the West: The Enlightened Effendi vs the Naïve Westerner
→ ʿÖmer Seyfeddīn, “The Secret Temple” ..................................98
III Early Nation-Building and the Interwar Period
1921 How Should the Nation Speak and Write? The Sweetness of the People’s Language
→ Moḥammad ‘Ali Jamālzādeh, “Persian is Sugar” ...................... 107
1925 Sticking to Tradition, Becoming Ridiculous: The Rabbi Who Broke the Sabbath
→ Hayim Nahman Bialik, “The Short Friday” ............................. 117
1929 Doomed to Watch the Faint Light of Hope Fade Away: The Committed Intellectual Fighting a Losing Battle
→ Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Lāshīn, “Village Small Talk” ...........131
1925/1937 Exposing the Ugliness of Greed: Literature as the Reformist’s Tool to Help Promote the Progress of the Nation
→ Maḥmūd Taymūr, “The Comedy of Death” ............................138
1940 Yes, We Can! A Blind Boy’s Success Story as Model for the Nation’s Future
→ Ṭāhā Ḥusayn, “Student Days” (from The Days) .........................144
IV Post-World War II
1948 The Responsibility of the Victorious: How to Deal with the Native Population?
→ S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” .................................................. 157
1952 Even on an Idyllic Island: The Irreversible Spread of Inhumanity
→ Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “A Dot on the Map” ............................... 171
1953 A Vicious Circle: Poverty and Overpopulation
→ Yūsuf Idrīs, “The Cheapest Nights” ...................................... 178
The Local and the Global: Turkey Integrating into World Economy
→ Haldun Taner, “Rain Was Falling at Șișhane” ...........................182
1955 The Marginalized as Fellow Human Beings: These, Too, Are “the Nation”
→ Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “The Man Who Doesn’t Know What a Tooth or a Toothache Is” .......................................................... 197
V Beginning Doubts
1954 Disgusting Reality vs Lofty Dreams: Imagining Prosperity after Misery
→ Yūsuf Idrīs, “Farahat’s Republic” .........................................203
The Prison as Mirror of the State of Affairs: A View from Below
→ Orhan Kemal, Ward 72 (excerpts) ........................................ 217
At the Cost of Humanity? Modernism Becoming Uncanny
→ Haldun Taner, “The Foot” ...............................................229
1957 Easy to Achieve and of Deep and Long-Lasting Effect: The Benefits of Western-style Technology
→ Rasul Parvizi, “The Story of My Glasses” ................................ 246
1958 Still a Long Way to Go: The Desolate Condition of the School System
→ Jalāl Āl-e Aḥmad, The School Principal (excerpts) .................... 252
1961 Modernity as Tragic Irony: A Critical Assessment of Turkey’s Twentieth Century Efforts
→ Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar, The Clock-Setting Institute (excerpts) .. 265
Does God Still Exist? Modern Man in Search of a Cure for His ‘Illness’
→ Nagīb Maḥfūẓ, “Zaabalawi” .............................................. 274
1963 Uncompromising Love and Responsibility: The Precarious Situation of the New Woman
→ Laylà Baʿalbakkī, “A Spaceship of Tenderness to the Moon” ..........284
Death of a Kibbutznik: Nature Takes Revenge
→ Amos Oz, “Nomad and Viper” ...........................................291
Metropolis Driving You Crazy: The Absurdity of Life in Modern Cairo
→ Yūsuf al-Shārūnī, “The Crowd” .......................................... 305
Venomous Tradition Persisting: The Burden of the Code of Honour and Shame
→ Zakariyyā Tāmir, “Snow at Night” ....................................... 316
VI New Sensibility
1966 The Postcolonial Generation in Danger of Drowning: Where Are the Safe Shores?
→ al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ, Season of Migration to the North (excerpts) ....... 325
1967 After the Collapse of the Grand Narratives: A Nation in Disarray
→ Nagīb Maḥfūẓ, “Under the Bus Shelter” ................................. 350
1969 Iran Under Occupation: Shīʿa Islam, National Heritage, and Patriotic Resistance
→ Simin Dāneshvar, A Persian Requiem (Savushun) (excerpts) ...... 358
1971 Continuing Amorality Out of Necessity and in Full Awareness: An Egyptian “Ring Parable”
→ Yūsuf Idrīs, “A House of Flesh” ...........................................389
1972 Exposing the Absurdities of the Surveillance State: Relief through Laughter
→ Aziz Nesin, “The People Awaken” ........................................ 395
1973 Depressing and Unintelligible: What We See Is Only the Top of the Iceberg
→ Yusuf Atılgan, Motherland Hotel (excer pt s) .............................401
1979 Exposing Despotism: Quasi-popular Storytelling and the Technique of Ironic Inversion
→ Zakariyyā Tāmir, “The Day That Genghis Khan Got Angry” ........410
VII Postmodernism
1984 Magic Realism as In-Perspective: Modernity as Perceived by the Migrant Settler from the Village
→ Latife Tekin, Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (excerpts) .. 417
1985 Fact and Fiction: An Alexandrian Youth Remembered
→ Idwār al-Kharrāṭ, “Billowing White Clouds” (from City of Saffron) .. 427
1990 Who, Actually, Are We? An Allegory about the Illusion of Originality and Authenticity
→ Orhan Pamuk, “The Story of the Crown Prince” (from The Black Book) ...................................................... 437
1993 A Thorn in the Flesh of the Nervous Jew: The Mizrahim and the Young Modern Israeli Middle-Class
→ Orly Castel-Bloom, “Ummi fi shurl” ..................................... 453
1994 East-West Revisited: A Woman Labour Migrant’s Perspective
→ Ḥanān al-Shaykh, “I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops” .................... 456
VIII The Early 2000s
2002 One House, But No Company: A Nation in Fragments
→ ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī, The Yacoubian Building (excerpts) ..................... 471
2005 Imagining the Wheel of History Put into Reverse: What If Arabic Were the Language of the Masters?
→ Almog Behar, “Ana min al yahoud—I’m one of the Jews” .............499
Appendix
Glossary

No.

38461

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8,360円