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Paper on Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (admittedly, I haven't read either).

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"He grappled with 'the dilemma of Palestinian writers, that we're expected to address the needs of people denied self-expression under occupation, to express their pain. But this is a trap: you have to strike a balance, not sacrificing the aesthetics for your readership. I hate the terms 'resistance poetry' or 'exile poetry'. We're not one-theme poets. A moment of joy or misery is juxtaposed by its opposite. There's no one face; I see both. I question myself all the time; if you oversimplify, you'd better quit.'"

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Some notes from a doctoral dissertation/book on the representation of Arabs and Islam in Persian literature.

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"Similarly, although less sympathetically, Syrian poet and critic Nouri Jarah points out that many poets rushed into translation are often "transformed from individuals fleeing repression into individuals benefiting from repression." In such a situation, being granted political asylum has more influence on translation than the merit of the poetry. This leads to the slightly ludicrous situation where someone completely unknown to Sudanese audiences, for example, can become Sudan's representative poet. And this poet is then assumed to be the best a certain culture has to offer. Because no one else has been translated."

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