Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature

Gibran Khalil Gibran's oeuvre is studied as bilingual Arabic literature, revealing a post-religious poet, modern and critical of modernity, creative but anxious bilingual writer, and critical-nationalist intellectual embedded in the nahda or Arab renaissance. The book uncovers what is absent and absented in its Anglo-American reception and highlights the multiple conditions of reading that have produced different functions of Gibran.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) is a bilingual Arabic writer who has been studied extensively in biographical and culturalist approaches. This monograph aims to examine his oeuvre beyond these approaches and situate him within his worldly contexts to reveal and analyse how the particular and the universal dialectically intersect in his multifarious work, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and letters. The book argues that Gibran is a post-religious poet who is both modern and critical of modernity, a creative but anxious bilingual writer, and a critical-nationalist intellectual embedded in the nahda or Arab renaissance. It situates Gibran within his worldly contexts to reveal and analyse how the particular and the universal dialectically intersect in his multifarious work, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and letters. The book also highlights and interrogates the multiple conditions of reading that have produced different functions of Gibran in its Anglo-American reception and its Arabic counterpart.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399504683