Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts - Mohamed A.H. Ahmed

Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts

The Stylistics of Exophonic Writing
Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4444-6 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for Israel. Finding it impossible to continue writing in Arabic in Israel, many Iraqi Jewish novelists faced the literary challenge of switching to Hebrew. Focusing on the literary works of the writers Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael and Eli Amir, this book examines their use of their native Iraqi Arabic in their Hebrew works. It examines the influence of Arabic language and culture and explores questions of language, place and belonging from the perspective of sociolinguistics and multilingualism.In addition, Ahmed applies stylistics as a framework to investigate the range of linguistic phenomena that can be found in these exophonic texts, such as code-switching, borrowing, language and translation strategies. This new stylistic framework for analysing exophonic texts offers a future model for the study of other languages.The social and political implications of this dilemma, as it finds expression in creative writing, are also manifold. In an age of mass migration and population displacement, the conflicted loyalties explored in this book through the prism of Arabic and Hebrew are relevant in a range of linguistic contexts.

Mohamed A.H. Ahmed, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 12 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4744-4444-X / 147444444X
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-4444-6 / 9781474444446
Zustand Neuware
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