Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings : : Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction / / Julia Wurr.

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary marketExplores the poetics and socio-political functions of Neo-Orientalism, anti-Muslim racism and securitisation in English, French and German language fiction about the Arab uprisingsIncludes close readings of works by T...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies of the Globalised Muslim World : ESGMW
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
  • 1 FROM TAHRIR TO TERROR: NEO-ORIENTALISM AND THE ‘ARAB SPRING’
  • 2 THE ARAB UPRISINGS AND THE WESTERN LITERARY MARKET
  • 3 PRECARITY FAR AND NEAR: THE ARAB UPRISINGS IN TAHAR BEN JELLOUN’S PAR LE FEU AND JONAS LÜSCHER’S FRÜHLING DER BARBAREN
  • 4 AFFECTIVE MASCULINITY AND THE ARAB UPRISINGS: ADAM THIRLWELL’S KAPOW! AND JOCHEN BEYSE’S REBELLION: ZWISCHENBERICHT
  • 5 FIGURATIONS OF TERROR: THE ISLAMIST RAGE BOY IN KARIM ALRAWI’S BOOK OF SANDS AND MATHIAS ÉNARD’S RUE DES VOLEURS
  • 6 THE ARAB UPRISINGS BETWEEN INEQUALITY, INSECURITY AND IDENTITY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX