Dancing in Damascus: Stories (Suny Series, the Margins of

Dancing in Damascus: Stories (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
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Growing out of the author's anthropological fieldwork in Syria, these nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus. Available here together for the first time in English, they confound popular stereotypes of Arab women and men as fundamentalists, terrorists, and victims of the Gulf War. The stories touch on such themes as tyranny, good and bad fortune in marriage, exile, the snobbery of old wealth, the ambition of new money, and much else. In a postscript, "The Pirates' Socks," Lindisfarne discusses why she chose to write about her fieldwork through the medium of fiction, and how writing these stories allowed her to tell truths an academic monograph could not contain. An Arabic edition of Dancing in Damascus was published in Syria in 1997, to considerable acclaim throughout the Arab world.
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State Univ of New York Pr
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780791446362
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State Univ of New York Pr
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780791446362
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Dancing in Damascus: Stories (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)