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In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the elaboration of the notion of adab in its wider meaning of literary culture is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of writers. The disproportionate emphasis, within and outside the Arabic literary-historical and critical tradition, has been at the expense of certain crucial aspects of that tradition.

 

 

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In Unmaking Mimesis, Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. Diamond combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by diverse writers such as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, Diamond demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today.

 

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An engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years covering the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and exploring all the forms that have made it so famous.

 

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Magical Realism in West African Fiction focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana and contextualizes their fiction within current debates and theories around the 'postcolonial' globally. Providing a thoughtful introduction to magical realism as a genre, Brenda Cooper uses Cheney-Coker, Okri and Laing to discuss the particular and distinct intervention of magical realism in a West African context. She examines the narrative techniques of novels that mingle the dimensions of magic, myth and historical reality, and addresses their position in relation to the more explicitely nationalist agendas of the realism of Achebe and others.