Beschreibung
Essays in this book deal with Western intellectuals, Arab intellectuals and Arab literary and cultural concerns, the spread of Islamophobia, and the division of what may be called the international intelligentsia into radicals, pundits, renegades, and imposters.
Autorenportrait
Abdulla Al-Dabbagh is Professor of English Literature at the United Arab Emirates University. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an M. Litt. from Cambridge University, and a PhD from Essex University. He has taught English, American, and world literatures, literary criticism, and translation at universities in Iraq, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of
(Lang 2010),
(Lang 2010),
(Lang 2011), and
(Lang 2012).
Inhalt
Contents: Three Figures: T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, George Orwell – Raymond Williams. The End of the Line – E.P. Thompson and Perry Anderson: A Debate – A Note on Christopher Caudwell – John McGrath and the Alternative Theatre Movement – Islamaphobia and the intellectuals – Radicals, Renegades, Pundits and imposters: Reflections on the International Intelligentsia – Power and the Radical Araba Intellectual. Three Case Studies – Mediterraneanism in Modern Arab Cultural Thought – Poetics of Exile and Identity. The Case of Modern Iraqi Poetry.
