Ammiel Alcalay

Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999

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Cultural Writing. As a poet, translator, critic and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for numerous magazines, newspapers and literary journals. In MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE, the unique intellectual and political path forged by Alcalay over the past fifteen years has now been collected in one volume. Alcalay surveys diverse subjects, among them Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia. Few contemporary intellectuals can boast of as diverse a range of skills and talents as Ammiel Alcalay. His work is cosmopolitan in the best sense: in an epoch of superficial g… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Goytisolo, Juan (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-87286-360-6
EAN: 9780872863606
Produktnummer: 35723773
Verlag: City Lights
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 326 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.9 cm 458 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 458

Über den Autor

Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is the Deputy Chair of the PhD Program in English. His latest work is Scrapmetal (Factory School, 2006). He is also editor and translator of Keys to the Garden and Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues, both published by City Lights. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. His books include: Mask of Idenity, The Marx Family Saga and State of Siege. He lives in Marrakesh, Morocco.