Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern. Alon, Alon,**

Name: Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern. Alon, Alon,**
Brand: Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press

What does it mean to write a literature of the present? In the early twentieth century, Arabic and Hebrew writers faced a parallel predicament. Modern literature aspired to reflect the contemporary moment, yet the Middle Eastern present seemed incompatible with dominant literary forms, especially the novel. Projects of \u201Ccultural awakening\u201D implied that Arabs and Jews were somehow inhabiting the present wrongly. Arabic and Hebrew writers found themselves grappling with the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of narrating the present\u2014and achieved strikingly similar literary solutions to this challenge.\nThis book develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings of Arabic and Hebrew prose. Situating literary production in projects\n\nStatic Forms\nWriting the Present in the Modern Middle East\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked servic;