Packaged Lives - Ten Stories and a Novella

Informationen zum Autor Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi Kurdish writer and activist. She is the author of Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London , City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance , Dreaming of Baghdad , and Party for Thaera: Palestinian Women Writing Life , among others. Wen-chin Ouyang is professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition , and Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State , Modernity and Tradition . She has been working towards Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies, including Silk Road studies. Klappentext "'Packaged Lives' is a collection of ten short stories and a novella, originally written in Arabic, by Iraqi-Kurdish writer Haifa Zangana"-- Zusammenfassung The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise. Iraqis living in exile come to life in her narratives as men and women who are caught between two worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Wen-Chin Ouyang, Haifa Zangana, Haifa Ouyang Zangana
• Assisted by: Wen-Chin Ouyang (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780815611370
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1137-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature