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REVIEWS Literature and Nation in the Middle East . Eds. Y asir S uleiman and I brahim M uhawi . Edinburgh University Press, 2006. vii+264 pp. Reviewed by B outheina K haldi , Yale University The book is a collection of articles that deals with issues of nation building as re fl ected in the literature of the Middle East. There are eleven chapters and an intro- duction by Yasir Suleiman. In the introduction, Suleiman provides an overview of the range of the book and its concerns. He maintains that the construction of a nation is “a purposeful activity that requires the identi fi cation and selection of exist- ing cultural and experiential material that is reshaped, worked and reworked to advance the cause of the nation as the site of collective identi fi cation, allegiance and patriotism.” (p. 2) He adds: “national identities are complex phenomena that relate to national literatures in complex and myriad ways.” (p. 2) The implication is that the book does not pretend to offer wholesale answers to issues of such complexity as modernity, an issue that strongly relates to nation building. Yasir Suleiman is critical of the re fl ection theory without
Journal of Arabic Literature – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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