TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoda El Shakry
TI  - The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
SN  - 9780823286355
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - North Africa
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - North African literature (French)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index; Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Ethics of Reading -- Introduction: The Qurʼan as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique -- Part I. Poetics of Piety:  1. Existential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʻadī's Mawlid al-nisyān -- 2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano -- Part II. Ethics of Embodiment:  3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār's Al-zilzāl -- 4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia -- Part III. Genealogies of Transmission:  5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi's Le passé simple -- 6. Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda's Luʻbat al-nisyān -- Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʾanic model of narratology"--
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