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  A wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity
  
  This issue of Alif explores the ways in which humans have come to confront their mortality across time and space. Contributions question the nature of loss, grief, and the possibility of an afterlife. Is death only an interlude? Perhaps simply the end? How have people used literature and the arts to conceptualize its relentless presence in our existence?
  
  The articles in this issue decenter, critique, and problematize predominant notions of the meaning of mortality for human creativity. They provide a wide scope of responses to mortality, anthropologically, philosophically, and psychologically. They shed light on different cultural receptions of loss, annihilation, and mortality, ranging from India to Yemen, Palestine to Iraq, the Island of Lampedusa to the war-ravished city of Beirut, among many other locales. Death is dealt with in an intimate fashion through the exploration and reinterpretation of modern and classical elegiac poetry, children’s picturebooks, fictional accounts of war, grief, and displacement, and dramatic treatments of dying and the afterlife.
  
  Contributors:
  Hajjaj Abu Jabr, Egyptian Academy of Arts, Cairo, Egypt
  Karam AbuSehly, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
  Hala Amin, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
  Shaimaa El-Ateek, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Mohamed Birairi, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt, and American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  Elliott Colla, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
  Saeed Elmasry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
  Shaimaa Gohar, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  Walid El Khachab, York University, Toronto, Canada
  Yasmine Motawy, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  Dani Nassif, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
  Andrea Maria Negri, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  Marwa Ramadan, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
  Caroline Rooney, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom
  Tania Al Saadi, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  May Telmissany, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  Shahla Ujayli, American University of Madaba, Madaba, Jordan

• Tuotetiedot

  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja American University in Cairo Press
  • ISBN 9781649032362
  • Tuotekoodi 9781649032362
  • Alanimike Literature Confronting Mortality
  • Toimittanut Walid El Hamamsy
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Thema-luokitus Kirjallisuustiede ja -kritiikki; Sosiologia: kuolema; Sosiaaliantropologia ja kulttuuriantropologia
  • Ilmestymispäivä 02.03.2023
  • Vuosi 2023
  • Tuoteryhmä Kielten oppikirjat, kielitiede
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Sivumäärä 576
  • Pituus (mm) 242
  • Leveys (mm) 173
  • Korkeus (mm) 34
  • Paino (g) 982
  • Tuotemuoto Pehmeäkantinen
  • ALV 13,5%

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