Edinburgh University Press
Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature
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This monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) 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.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Series Editor’s Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Translation, Transliteration and Abbreviations
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Introduction: Why and How Should We Read Gibran Today?
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1 The Poetics of Prophetic Writing: Reinventing the Religious in and against Modernity
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2 The Bilingual Chasm
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3 Gibran as Nationalist and Nahḍawī
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4 Multiple Horizons of Expectations, Multiple Gibrans: Or, Gibran as World Literature
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Epilogue Rereading Gibran and the Question of Reading
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Bibliography
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Index
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