1st Edition
Arabic Literature for the Classroom Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts
Introduction: Arabic Literature for the Classroom Part I:Theory and Method 1. Proxidistant Reading: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of the Nahḍah in U.S. Comparative Literary Studies - Shaden M. Tageldin 2. Teaching Arab Women’s Letters - Boutheina Khaldi 3. Arab Women Writers 1980-2010 - Miriam Cooke 4. Teaching Francophone Algerian Women’s Literature in a Bilingual French-English Context: Creative Voices, Dissident Texts - Brinda Mehta 5. Teaching Classical Arabic Literature in English Translation - Jocelyn Sharlet 6. Classical and Post-Classical Arabic Literary Delights - Nizar Hermes 7. Language through Literature - Taoufik Ben Amor Part II: Theme 8. Lessons from the Maghreb - Hoda el Shakry 9. Teaching Humor in Arabic Literature and Film - Tarek El-Ariss 10. The Art of Teaching Arab Traumas Triumphantly - Hanadi Al-Samman 11. The Urban Gateway: Teaching the City in Modern Arabic Literature - Ghenwa Hayek 12. Teaching Mahmud Darwish - Jeff Sacks 13. Teaching the Modernist Arabic Poem in Translation - Muhsin al-Musawi 14. Lessons from a Revolution - Nathaniel Greenberg Part III: Text 15. Teaching the Maqamat in Translation - Roger Allen 16. Ibn Hazm: Freindship, Love and the Quest for Justice - A. Terri L De Young 17. The Story of Zahra and its Critics - Elizabeth M. Holt 18. The Arabic Frametale and Two European Offspring - James Monroe 19. Teaching the Arabian Nights - Muhsin al-Musawi
Biography
Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University and the author of many books in English and Arabic, including 'Arabic poetry'
This rich volume with its useful and original focus on teaching makes me wish I were teaching Arabic literature again. Including chapters by experts on all the major and many minor genres, the highly stimulating collection will be fruitfully read by teachers and students of Arabic and world literature. Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic emeritus, University of Oxford.
This critically acute and pedagogically canny collection offers a host of ways to bring Arabic literature more fully into comparative and world literature classrooms, as well as in more specifically Middle Eastern courses. These essays offer new pathways into a wide range of classic and modern texts, in illuminating discussions that will be full of interest for teachers, scholars, and general readers alike. David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
In this fine addition to a growing corpus of such materials, Muhsin al-Musawi and his colleagues have brought to bear on the teaching of Arabic literature a wide-ranging, high quality and apposite set of texts, insights, and best practices, designed to guide both novices and seasoned experts alike. Shawkat M. Toorawa, Professor of Arabic Literature, Yale University
