Book contents
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Chronology of Wannous’ Life, Plays, and Selected Writings
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Wannous
- Part II Reading Wannous
- Part III Staging Wannous
- Part IV Remembering Wannous
- 9 Unpacking Wannous’ Library
- 10 A Student of Theatre in Paris
- 11 Grammar of Life and Death
- 12 Be What You Want to Be
- List of Wannous’ Plays
- Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays
- Bibliography
- Index
12 - Be What You Want to Be
from Part IV - Remembering Wannous
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2021
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Book contents
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
- The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Chronology of Wannous’ Life, Plays, and Selected Writings
- Introduction
- Part I Situating Wannous
- Part II Reading Wannous
- Part III Staging Wannous
- Part IV Remembering Wannous
- 9 Unpacking Wannous’ Library
- 10 A Student of Theatre in Paris
- 11 Grammar of Life and Death
- 12 Be What You Want to Be
- List of Wannous’ Plays
- Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter is a testimony from the perspective of the writer and novelist Dima Wannous, Sa’dallah Wannous’ daughter, as a young girl as she recalls the final days she spent with her father more than twenty years ago in Damascus when he encouraged her to be whatever she wanted to be. Wannous paints an elegant verbal portrait of herself as a child raised by a literary parent in a world of books.
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- The Theatre of Sa'dallah WannousA Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual, pp. 204 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021