Omschrijving
How do young scholars from the Arab world interact with English literature? Is literature relevant to their life? Can it help shape their reality? Is this affiliation new, or is there a pattern?
The editor of this book, Samira al-Khawaldeh, is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Jordan, with special interest in poetry and the theme of literature and society. She has published articles in the area of comparative literature, “The Islamic Storyteller” (Arabica), the prison poetry of Hamdani and Lovelace (Journal of Arabic Literature), and an analysis of Qur’anic verses on women in “The One Raised in Ornament? Gendering Issues in the Qur’an” (Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World). Contributing to Shakespearean studies, she published “Othello’s Travailous History” (Critical Survey) and “Shakespeare’s East-West Exogamy: Pre-colonial Narratives” (Mu’tah University Journal).