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"Qabbani versus Qur...
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- In The Road from Damascus (2008), Syrian-British writer Robin Yassin-Kassab's debut novel, the protagonist describes "the opposing camps of [his] childhood," as narratives of "Qabbani versus Qur'an" (56). While Sami's father idolises the pan-Arabist poet Nizar Qabbani and supports the Syrian regime despite its repressive policies, Sami's mother, disillusioned with nationalist ideology, turns instead to faith, offering her son a "different mythology" based on "the adventures of God's messengers" (53). Tracing Sami's negotiations of these seemingly opposed inherited narratives, Yassin-Kassab's novel examines the lingering impact of pan-Arabism and the alternatives offered by Islamic frameworks. While critics have previously approached this novel as part of a growing corpus of British Muslim fiction, in this essay, I focus more closely on the novel's interrogation of Arab nationalism. As I will show, Yassin-Kassab's novel unfolds as a series of ideological disillusionments that chart the protagonist's confrontation with the failure of nationalist politics. Inviting the reader to follow the protagonist's successive conversions and de-conversion from various forms of nationalism, Yassin-Kassab's representation of the polarisation between " Qabbani versus Qur'an" poses the question of how one might find alternatives beyond such restrictive dichotomies, dramatizing the inadequacies of political vision in the Arab world today.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
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- Arab nationalism
- migration
- ummah
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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