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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story - Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender (Hardcover)
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Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story - Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender (Hardcover)
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Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and
his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first
English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro
Columbu examines Tamir's literary development in the context of
changing political contexts, from his beginnings as a short story
writer on local magazines in the late 1950s until the Syrian
revolution of 2011. Thus, the movements from independence and
Western-inspired modernisation to the rise of nationalism and
socialism; war, defeat, occupation in the 1960s; the emergence of
authoritarianism and the cult of personality of Hafiz al-Assad in
the 1970s are charted in the context of Tamir's works. Therein, the
significance of masculinity and patriarchy and its changing nature
in relation to nationalism and authoritarianism are revealed as
Tamir's foremost vehicles for social and political critique. The
role of female sexuality and its disrupting/empowering nature
vis-a-vis patriarchal institutions is also explored, as is the
question of literary commitment and the relationship between
authors and the authoritarian regime of Syria; homosexuality and
representations of unconventional sexualities in general.
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