{"id":8318,"date":"2023-12-18T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:52:02","slug":"the-book-of-khartoum-a-city-in-short-fiction-ali-al-makk-and-4-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/the-book-of-khartoum-a-city-in-short-fiction-ali-al-makk-and-4-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction.. Ali al-Makk and 4 More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Khartoum – Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning \u2018meeting place\u2019. Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan\u2019s long, troubled history of forced migration.<\/p>\n

In the pages of this book \u2013 the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English \u2013 the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his father\u2019s shop, act out a future that may one day be his.<\/p>\n

Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new \u2018Iksir\u2019 generation. As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin.<\/p>\n

“An exciting, long-awaited collection showcasing some of Sudan’s finest writers. There is urgency behind the deceptively languorous voices and a piercing vitality to the shorter forms.<\/p>\n

These writers lay claim over the contradictions and fusions of the capital city – Nile and drought, urbanization and village ties, what is African and what is Arab.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khartoum – Sudan Events Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning \u2018meeting place\u2019. Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8320,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/8320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}