Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures

Routledge

2013

ix, 285 p.

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 44

9780415893374

Part 1: Literature and the Seeds of Dissent 1. Alaa Al-Aswany and the Desire for Revolution Ziad Elmarsafy 2. Saudi Women Novelists and the Quest for Freedom: The Case of Raja Alem's The Doves' Necklace Karima Laachir 3. Yasar Kemal's Island of Resistance Sibel Irzik 4. Four Narrations and an 'Imagined Community' Hashem Ahmadzadeh 5. Articulations of Resistance in Modern Persian Literature Nasrin Rahimieh and Sharareh Frouzesh 6. Iranian Drama and the Aesthetics of Gender Relations and Religiosity: Mohammad Rahmanian's Ashaqeh Saeed Talajooy Part 2: Cinema between Creativity and Censorship 7. Resisting Pleasure? Political Opposition and the Body in Arab Cinema Viola Shafik 8. Reviving the Palestine Narrative on Film: Negotiating the Future through the Past and Present in Route 181 Haim Breshteeth 9. Azza El-Hassan and Impossible Filmmaking in Israel/ Palestine Nadia Yaqub 10. Gender, Family and Home(land) in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Films by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Reha Erdem & UEmit UEnal Ozlem Guclu and Cuneyt Cakirlar 11. Madness, Resistance and Iranian Cinema Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Part 3: Musical Interventions 12: Rapping and Remapping the Tunisian Revolution Nouri Gana 13: Singing the Unspeakable, Resisting Power: Nazan OEncel, Popular Music and Women's Rights in Modern Turkey Donat Bayer Berkoez 14. "An Eastern Child of a Western Invasion": Questions of Identity, Socio-Political Commentaries and Innovation in Tehran's Unofficial Rock Music Scene Bronwen Robertson 15. Carving a Space for Female Solo Singing in Post-Revolution Iran Parmis Mozafari

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