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Dancing in Damascus: Stories.
・ISBN 978-0-7914-4636-2 paper US$ 35.95
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| 著者・編者 | Lindisfarne, Nancy, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature) |
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2000 |
| ページ数 | 176 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-27938＞ |
解説
These nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus, as well as the possibilities of writing ethnography as fiction.
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.