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| | Geoffrey Baker, Intro to Short Fiction, Summer 2003, Rutgers University, week one |
 | | Salih's prose (especially when giving voice to Mustafa Sa'eed) is reminiscent of classical Arabic poetic diction in its occasional lyricality, repetition, and frames of reference (camels, arrows, waterskins, erotics, etc.). |
 | | Mu'allaqah of Labid"; I can't find this whole poem in English, but the pieces of it here will at least hint at some of the elegiac mood of Mustafa's long narration in Salih's novel. |
 | | As the novel progresses, other oppositions become noticeable: fl and white, man and woman, town and country, colonizer and native, colonial and post-colonial, love and hatred, and, very importantly, North and South. |
| www.rci.rutgers.edu /~gabaker/sf2003/week5.html (1141 words) |
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