cooke Dissident Syria

Making Oppositional Arts Official
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9056-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 205 Seiten

An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asads Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

cooke, miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 3

1. “Culture is Humanity’s Highest Need” 19

As If. 20

Slogans, Slogans Everywhere 26

Freedom and Democracy 30

2. Our Literature Does Not Leave the Country 36

Nadia al-Ghazzi 39

Colette al-Khuri 42

3. No Such Thing as Women’s Literature 48

Ulfat Idilbi 49

Salons and Mallahat al-Khani 53

Nadia Khust and the Nadwa 57

4. Commissioned Criticism 65

Culture after the Fall of the Wall 68

Commissioned Criticism 72

The Fantasy of Choice 77

5. Dissident Performances 81

Performing Dissidence 84

The Ghoul 87

Historical Miniatures 92

6. Filming Dreams 100

The Extras 102

Dreaming Features 106

Documenting Dreams 116

7. Lighten Your Step 121

Ibrahim Samu’il 124

Waiting 127

Ghassan al-Jaba’i 130

Lessons from a Rogue State 142

8. Leaving Damascus 145

Postscript 160

Notes 167

Bibliography 177

Index 187

Über Autor(innen)

miriam cooke is a professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University. Her books include Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature and Women and the War Story as well as the coedited collections Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop; Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing; and Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War.