Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature

Ghazouane Arslane

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Edinburgh University Press
09 December 2024

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (emigre) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature beyond biographical and culturalist approaches. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to unveil and analyse how the particular and the universal dialectically intersect in his multifarious work, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays and letters. What emerges is a post-religious poet who is both modern and critical of modernity, a creative but anxious bilingual writer, and a critical-nationalist intellectual embedded in the nahda or Arab renaissance. In its situated close readings of Gibran's work in both languages and across genres and contexts, the book reveals what is both absent and absented in its Anglo-American reception, demonstrating that there is much more to Gibran than his famous book The Prophet. It also probes this reception alongside its Arabic counterpart, highlighting and interrogating the multiple conditions of reading that have produced different functions of Gibran.

By: Ghazouane Arslane
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399504683
ISBN 10: 1399504681
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 09 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ghazouane Arslane is Lecturer in the Department of English at Larbi Tebessi University, Tebessa - Algeria. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has contributed articles, essays and translations to Journal of Arabic Literature, Life Writing, Philosophy East and West, Asymptote and Universal Localities: The Languages of World Literature (J.B. Metzler Berlin, 2022).

Reviews for Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature

Ghazouane Arslane makes a momentous intervention in current debates about world literature via Gibran Khalil Gibran. In this fascinating study, the bilingual poet/artist emerges as a multi-faceted worldly figure who exemplifies and transcends multiple categories: Mahjar poet, Nahḍawī thinker, religious writer and more. Reading Gibran against key thinkers such as Attridge, Derrida, Heidegger and Meskini, Arslane uncovers a wealth of ideas and interpretations that will forever change our view of a writer ripe for critical re-discovery.--Ziad Elmarsafy, University of St Andrews

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Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature

Ghazouane Arslane

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