Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges
Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes – and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties. She also explores how a new cadre of men of letters – poets, writers and intellectuals – shaped Arab Latin American encounters in the late 20th century.

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Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges
Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes – and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties. She also explores how a new cadre of men of letters – poets, writers and intellectuals – shaped Arab Latin American encounters in the late 20th century.

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Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges

Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges

by Tahia Abdel Nasser
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges

Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges

by Tahia Abdel Nasser

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Overview

Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes – and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how cultural exchange between Latin America and the Arab world cemented historical and diplomatic ties. She also explores how a new cadre of men of letters – poets, writers and intellectuals – shaped Arab Latin American encounters in the late 20th century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399507134
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/15/2024
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Tahia Abdel Nasser is Assistant Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American Universityin Cairo. She has published in Comparative Literature Studies, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Journal of Arabic Literature, Dictionary of African Biography (2011), Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (2001) and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cultural Exchange between Latin America and the Arab World

  1. Transcontinental Literature: Gabriel García Márquez and Héctor Abad Faciolince
  2. The African Shore: Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Alberto Ruy Sánchez in Morocco
  3. Children of Scheherazade: Gabriel García Márquez in Arabic
  4. Che Guevara’s Diaries, Miguel Littín’s Adventures: Latin American Iconography in Arabic Literature
  5. Dreams of Jorge Luis Borges, Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes: Arabic and World Literature

Epilogue: The Legacy of Transcontinental Ties

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