The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders

The book “The Evasiveness of History... in Literature and Visual Arts” by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Dabaa provides a descriptive, analytical, cultural reading that begins with a study of our Arab history in literature and the arts, to monitor the forms and problems of the presence of this history at the level of consumption and reception, and what often results in distorting it, or arguing with it, or confirming it. ....Then comes the second chapter, to study the forms of the presence and evasions of history in contemporary Arab narrative arts, and the manifestations of this in the novel, short stories, and written text theater, with a critical analysis of significant models that belong to the contemporary. ... The book continues its quest by examining the presence of the sacred historical in contemporary poetry, the mechanisms of engagement of the poetic text with it, the levels of its relationships, and the techniques of engaging the sacred historical in the poetic, starting with activism poetry and its multiple trends in the Arab world, and continuing with the prose poem and its continuous expansion. ....The book concludes by reading the literature of autobiography and self-narration, between the historical and the narrative imagination, to stand before the real and the imaginary in autobiographical literature, its structures and forms, the techniques of the presence of history in it, the aesthetics of performance in the forms of this type of literature, and its relationship to the transformations witnessed by contemporary narrative arts of identification between the self and the imaginary, the transformations of discourse in it, and continuous experimentation in the structures of its writing.