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Author:   Lindsey Moore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780367667405

ISBN 10:   0367667401
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction I. Postcolonial Studies and the Arab World: Towards a Critical Counterpoint II. Postcolonial Arab Nations III. Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations Chapter One. Before, After and Between the Revolutions: Desire and Death in Egypt I. Revolution I / 1919—1952: Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy II. Revolution II / 1946—1956: Latifa al-Zayyat, The Open Door III. Between the Acts: Mahfouz, Miramar IV. (Counter-)Revolution / After 1967: Miral al-Tahawy, Blue Aubergine V. Death and Desire: Alaa al-Aswany, The Yacoubian Building Chapter Two. ‘We Algerians’: National Emergencies and Alternative Genealogies I. A Brief History of Algerian Violence: Two ‘Fanonian’ Wars II. An Alternative Algerian Vision: Albert Camus, The First Man and ‘The Guest’ III. Unfinished Literature: Assia Djebar, Algerian White IV. ‘Le fils naturel’: Rachid Boudjedra, The Repudiation and The Barbary Figs V. Algerian Hospitality in the Feminine: Boualem Sansal, Harraga and Rue Darwin Chapter Three. Gender Trauma on the Line: Lebanese War Literature I. Taboo Subjects, Narrative Predicaments and the Front Line II. Dissident Dismembering/Remembering: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose III. Queerer and Queerer: Rachid al-Daïf, Passage to Dusk IV. Gendered Space, Heteronormative Desire, Disavowed Histories V. Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters Chapter Four. Palestine in the Colonial Present: Ruins, Rifts and Remainders I. Writing Palestinian Lives II. Becoming Palestinian: Edward Said, Out of Place III. An ‘Arab Woman’s Memoir’: Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother and Me IV. Resolution Deferred: Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima and Return V. Ruins and the Rift: Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House, Palestinian Walks and A Rift in Time Works Cited Index

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Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in Senior English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

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