1st Edition
Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine
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
Biography
Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in Senior English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.
