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What Makes a Man?: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin (Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation) - Softcover

Al-Daif, Rashid

 
9780292763104: What Makes a Man?: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin (Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0292763107 ISBN 13: 9780292763104
Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer, who then returned the visit to al-Daif in Lebanon. Following their time together, al-Daif published in Arabic a literary reportage of his encounter with Helfer in which he focuses on the German writer's homosexuality. His frank observations have been variously read as trenchant, naïve, or offensive. In response, Helfer provided an equally frank point-by-point riposte to al-Daif's text. Together these writers offer a rare exploration of attitudes toward sex, love, and gender across cultural lines. By stretching the limits of both fiction and essay, they highlight the importance of literary sensitivity in understanding the Other. Rashid al-Daif's "novelized biography" and Joachim Helfer's commentary appear for the first time in English translation in What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin. Also included in this volume are essays by specialists in Arabic and German literature that shed light on the discourse around sex between these two authors from different cultural contexts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rashid al-Daif has written three volumes of poetry and more than a dozen novels, six of which have been translated into English and a number of other languages.

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Verlag
University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0292763107
ISBN 13 
9780292763104
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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