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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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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature, Modern - 21st century |
Middle Eastern literature |
Fiction |
Contemporary Literature |
Middle Eastern Literature |
Fiction Literature |
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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 Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages |
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