1st Edition
Politicising World Literature Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public
Introduction
1. Love in the Time of World Crises: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club
2. "Moving Like Rivers Through Us": Individual and Global Landscapes in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage
3. The Case of the Strange Familiarity Between Andrea Camilleri and Tawfik al-Hakim
4. Circumnavigating the Canon: Amitav Ghosh’s Antique Land and the Long Tenth Century
Conclusion: World Literature: Negotiation and Equilibrium
Biography
Dr. May Hawas is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo.
A wonderfully fresh and unpredictable voice in the sometimes all too predictable debates between world literature and postcolonial studies.
--Bruce Robbins, Columbia UniversityThis book is an important and timely intervention in the fields of world literature, the postcolonial novel, and literary history and criticism. Hawas’s attention to aesthetics and pedagogy in her reading of a wide range of literary texts is remarkable.
--Kifah Hanna, Trinity College
