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

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

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
Author	Nancy Lindisfarne
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: State Univ of New York Pr
EAN	9780791446362
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0791446360
Label	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	168
PublicationDate	2000-08-03
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Studio	State University of New York Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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