"Blame These Days, Don't Blame Me!": Rewriting Medieval Arabic in Maghrebi National Literature and Drama.
This article examines two crucial moments of literary adaptation in twentieth-century North Africa, when Classical Arabic prose takes on a central but rarely acknowledged position in emerging national arts. Maḥmūd al-Mas'adī and al-Ṭayyib al-Ṣiddīqī destabilize the accepted critical account of Arabi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 68 - 93 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2015
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