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Writing and Being
Author: Nadine Gordimer
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1995
In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
Other Others
In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social construction of the Other. For Emmanuel Levinas, in contrast, the Other is precisely that which eludes construction and categorization. In a study that ranges from literature of ancient China, Greece, and Israel to modern Egypt, Italy, West Africa, and America, Steven Shankman tests Levinas's ideas by reading literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian orbit for figurations equivalent to Levinas's notion of the Other. He also places ethics at the center of intercultural—or, in his words, "transcultural"—comparative literature. In contemporary literary and cultural studies, it is often assumed that culture has the last word. However, as Levinas insists—and as Shankman argues throughout this book—it is ethics that is the "presupposition of all Culture," that is situated "before Culture."
On the Roots of Religious Sectarianism and the Quest for an Authentic Dialogue in a New Cultural Space
This study examines the potential for cultivating authentic and creative dialogue between Muslims and Christians in Egypt amid entrenched sectarian divisions and polarized cultural spaces. Anchored in intercultural studies and informed by lived encounters, it employs an ethnographic participant-observer methodology, complemented by perspectives from history, psychology, philosophy, Arabic literature, socio-economics, cultural studies, and theology. The research aims to recover silenced voices, attend to the lingering wounds of history, and envision constructive pathways toward reconciliation. It introduces the concept of Authentic Creative Dialogue, defined as a person-centered engagement grounded in the shared richness of human experience. Within this framework, Arabic literature functions as a medium of empathy, facilitating mutual recognition and opening possibilities for a new cultural space that fosters hope and healing.