Latin American and Arab Literature

Tahia Abdel Nasser is Assistant Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She has published in Comparative Literature Studies, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Journal of Arabic Literature, Dictionary of African Biography (2011), Mahmoud Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens (2001) and The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (2001).

• Introduction: Cultural Exchange between Latin America and the Arab World Transcontinental Literature: Gabriel García Márquez and Héctor Abad Faciolince The African Shore: Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Alberto Ruy Sánchez in MoroccoChildren of Scheherazade: Gabriel García Márquez in ArabicChe Guevara’s Diaries, Miguel Littín’s Adventures: Latin American Iconography in Arabic LiteratureDreams of Jorge Luis Borges, Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes: Arabic and World LiteratureEpilogue: The Legacy of Transcontinental Ties

Latin American and Arab Literature innovatively explores sites of cultural contact, literary intertextualities, and political solidarities across modern Arabic and Latin American literatures. Offering thoughtful close readings of a diverse range of textual genres and transcontinental literary exchanges, Abdel Nasser stages an exciting new model of horizontal south-south comparison.