Loading ...Review of Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories
Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories is a collection of eleven contemporary short stories from Jordan translated and edited by Ibtihal Mahmoud and Alexander Hadded, with a foreword by Samir Al Sharif which provides a very brief overview of the Jordanian short story for the reader unfamiliar with the literature.
As this anthology is aimed to introduce the reader to the Jordanian short story, it could have benefited from a little more of this framing. The stories are presented without dates or biographical information. That said however, this focus on the text itself has its own advantages and pushes back against the tendency to turn to Arabic literature as a form of ethnography. There’s also no messing about with glossaries and other forms of explaining the texts – there are only two footnotes.
Source: www.patheos.com