LITERATURE AND NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

indexLuah Eretz Yisrael (journal), 103Lunz, Avraham Moshe, 103Mahbuba, ÆAbd al-Hadi, 225Mahfuz, Naguib, 103Mahjoub, Jamal, 182Mahjub, Muhammad Ahmad, 162, 172, 173al-Mala’ika, Nazik, Iraqi nationalist poet, 212–13al-Hijira ila Allah, 223al-Ma’ wa-l-barud, 226Aqwa min al-qabr, 223–4Hudud al-raja’, 220influences on, 213–15inter-textuality in, 218–19, 224–5, 226li-l-Sala wa-l-thawra (poetry collection),220, 221–2Maraya al-shams, 225Nahnu wa Jamila, 216–18nationalism and spirituality, 221–6Qadaya al-shiÆr al-muÆasir (Issues in ModernPoetry), 219Sawsana ismuha al-quds, 222–3Shajarat al-qamar (poetry collection), 215Tahiyya li-l-jumhuriyya al-Æiraqiyya, 215–16,220, 228Thalath ughniyat Æarabiyya, 219, 220Ughniya li-l-atlal al-Æarabiyya, 218–19use of repetition, 219, 220, 227–8use of words, 216, 218, 219, 224Yughayyir al-wanah al-bahr (poetrycollection), 220–1, 225–6Malinowski, Bronislaw, 21Malkin, Yaakov, 122Manganaro, Elise Salem, 190Mann, Thomas, 6Mansur, Atallah, 186–7Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, 196martyrdom, 36, 37–8, 47nMarx, Karl, The Eighteenth Brumaire of LouisBonaparte, 139Masalha, Salman, 187masculinityand castration, 51, 53–4, 55, 65, 71, 77nand force, 64and national identity, 52–8, 59, 63, 73–5and nationalist poetry, 213rhetoric of, 60–2Massad, Joseph, 58mediaEnglish newspaper editions, 183Sudan, 174Mediterranean, and Arab world, 180memorycollective, 87–8food and, 202nostalgic, 14, 190, 192survivor, 190–1metanarrative discourse, 26–7, 30nMiddle Eastconcept of nation in, 4–5, 188multi-lingualism in, 184peace process, 93–5, 108Mikha’il, Murad, 186Mikha’il, Sami, Victoria, 186modernism, 3–4, 32Morse, Margaret, 194Muecke, D. C., 33multi-lingualism, 184, 197MutawwaÆ, Khalid, 184Myerhoff, Barbara, 28myth, Darwish’s use of, 81myth-making, 1, 11, 35and heroic construct, 24–5, 115–17of New Hebrew youth, 112, 117–22nahda (Arab cultural renaissance), 129, 131,162al-Nahda (Sudanese journal), 171, 172, 176Najjar, Alexandre, 190naming, 6, 18, 41in oral tradition, 98and renaming of places, 19–20Nancy, Jean Luc, 62Naqib, Fadl, on Men in the Sun, 52, 53–4Naqqash, Samir, 186narrators, of poetry, 25, 26Nasir, Amjad, 184Nasser, Gamal Abdel-, 144, 216nationconstructivist view of, 1–2, 3–4reciprocal relations with literature, 2–3,226nation building, 1, 110and boundaries, 79and culture, 129and ethnicity, 181role of literature, 209–10, 211, 226, 228–9role of poetry, 4, 162symbolic, 146–7, 150–1and use of literary translation, 100–1National Front for the Liberation of Palestine,64national identityand cultural identity, 194–5, 204culture and, 2, 181–2—261 —www.taq.ir