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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788934203321

Autore

Gana Nouri

Titolo

The Edinburgh companion to the Arab novel in English : the politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American literature and culture / / edited by Nouri Gana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7486-8557-X

1-78402-320-5

0-7486-8555-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Classificazione

EN 2936

Disciplina

823.9109

Soggetti

American fiction - Arab American authors

English literature

English literature - Arab authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Constellations : modernity, empire and postcoloniality -- part II. Force-fields : ethnic ties and transnational solidarities -- part III. Prospects/challenges : authority, pedagogy and the market industry.

Sommario/riassunto

The novel is a largely imported European genre, coming relatively late to the history of Arab letters. It should therefore perhaps come as no surprise that the first novel to have been written by an Arab was written in English (Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid, 1911). However, subsequent years saw the flourishing of, first, Arabic novels, then the Francophone Arab novel. Only in the last two decades has the Anglophone Arab novel experienced a second coming, and it is this re-emergence of literary activity that is the focus of this collection. Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo Arab liter