Dancing in Damascus
stories
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Publication
2000 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL48339M
- ISBN-100791446352
- OCLC Control Number47011242
- OCLC Control Number42643594
- OCLC Control Numberdancingindamascu0000lind
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99049702
- LibraryThing2788977
- Goodreads1092485
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.I51127 D36 2000
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Genres
- Fiction.
Series Statement
- SUNY series, the margins of literature
Other Editions
- Dancing in Damascus: stories
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