Abdelfattah Kilito
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In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures. For Arab...
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Fascinado desde niño por Las mil y una noches, el primer libro que leyó en la infancia (a escondidas o por error de algún adulto), el autor de este libro se enfrenta a su propia tradición literaria poniéndola entre interrogantes. ¿Quién lo escribió? ¿Tiene el libro un final? ¿Se debe entender algún mensaje doble bajo los relatos? ¿Se podrían reescribir, con hombres y mujeres de hoy, esos relatos de ayer?
La ironía, la extensa cultura...
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It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published in 2002, Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shall Not Speak My Language explores this tension in his address of the dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within...
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The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism.
Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito's story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of memories where a child experiences first-hand the cultural clash of text and image in a changing, modern society. It is a time when the old Arabic world of texts and oral traditions is making way for something...