Abstract
Salmā Jayyūsī's highly acclaimed The Literature of Modern Arabia: An Anthology (Keegan Paul International, 1988) has considerably enhanced our meagre knowledge of the literature of modern Arabia in the West. Assassination of Light is a welcome addition to this area, not least because it covers what is by far the most popular form of literary activity in modern Arabic literature: the short story. Nevertheless, little is known, not just in the West, but also in the Arab World at large, about Saudi literature in general and the short story in particular. This explains, and is explained by, the fact that only a few studies of the short story in Saudi literature have appeared in Arabic, among the best known of which being the fairly recent survey by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ al-Shanṭī's al-Qiṣṣa al-Qaṣīra al-Muʿāṣira fī al-Mamlaka al-ʿArabiyya al-Suʿūdiyya: Dirāsa Naqdiyya (1987).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 209-210 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of Arabic Literature |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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