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UNINA9910300025103321 |
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Autore |
Campbell Ian |
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Titolo |
Arabic Science Fiction / / by Ian Campbell |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Global Science Fiction, , 2569-8834 |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature, Modern - 21st century |
Middle Eastern literature |
Fiction |
Contemporary Literature |
Middle Eastern Literature |
Fiction Literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2: Postcolonial Literature and Arabic SF -- Chapter 3: Arabic SF: Definitions and Origins -- Chapter 4: Criticism and Theory of Arabic SF -- Chapter 5: Double Estrangement in Nihād Sharīf's The Conqueror of Time -- Chapter 6: Continuity Within Rupture in Two Novels by Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd -- Chapter 7: "Utopia" as a Critique of Utopia in Ṣabrī Mūsā's The Gentleman from the Spinach Field -- Chapter 8: Male Gaze as Colonial Gaze in 'Aḥmad 'Abd al-Salām al-Baqqāli's The Blue Flood -- Chapter 9: Mysticism and SF in Ṭālib 'Umrān's Beyond The Veil of Time -- Chapter 10: Inheritance and Intertextuality in a Three-Novel Series by Ṭība 'Aḥmad Ibrāhīm -- Chapter 11: Conclusion. |
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This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian |
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