The Libyan Novel : : Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability / / Charis Olszok.
Traces the developments in Libyan novel writing from the 1970s to 2011 through encounters between human, animal and landLocates the study of internationally renowned authors Ibrahim al-Kuni (b. 1948) and Hisham Matar (b. 1970) within the context of their Libyan compatriotsAnalyses works by al-Sadiq...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction: A Nation of Others
- Part I Survival
- 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival
- 2. The Primordial Turn
- Part II Signs and Cityscapes
- 3. God’s Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel
- 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel
- Part III Children of the Land
- 5. Too-Long-a-Tale
- 6. ‘Une histoire de mouche’: Th e Libyan Novel in Other Voices
- Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index