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• Acknowledgements A Note on the Text IntroductionI. Postcolonial Studies and the Arab World: Towards a Critical CounterpointII. Postcolonial Arab NationsIII. Narrating Postcolonial Arab NationsChapter 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 BuildingChapter Two. ‘We Algerians’: National Emergencies and Alternative GenealogiesI. A Brief History of Algerian Violence: Two ‘Fanonian’ WarsII. An Alternative Algerian Vision: Albert Camus, The First Man and ‘The Guest’III. Unfinished Literature: Assia Djebar, Algerian WhiteIV. ‘Le fils naturel’: Rachid Boudjedra, The Repudiation and The Barbary FigsV. Algerian Hospitality in the Feminine: Boualem Sansal, Harraga and Rue DarwinChapter Three. Gender Trauma on the Line: Lebanese War LiteratureI. Taboo Subjects, Narrative Predicaments and the Front LineII. Dissident Dismembering/Remembering: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie RoseIII. Queerer and Queerer: Rachid al-Daïf, Passage to DuskIV. Gendered Space, Heteronormative Desire, Disavowed HistoriesV. Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine: A Novel in First ChaptersChapter Four. Palestine in the Colonial Present: Ruins, Rifts and RemaindersI. Writing Palestinian LivesII. Becoming Palestinian: Edward Said, Out of PlaceIII. An ‘Arab Woman’s Memoir’: Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother and MeIV. Resolution Deferred: Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima and ReturnV. Ruins and the Rift: Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House, Palestinian Walks and A Rift in TimeWorks CitedIndex

Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in Senior English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

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• Acknowledgements A Note on the Text IntroductionI. Postcolonial Studies and the Arab World: Towards a Critical CounterpointII. Postcolonial Arab NationsIII. Narrating Postcolonial Arab NationsChapter 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 BuildingChapter Two. ‘We Algerians’: National Emergencies and Alternative GenealogiesI. A Brief History of Algerian Violence: Two ‘Fanonian’ WarsII. An Alternative Algerian Vision: Albert Camus, The First Man and ‘The Guest’III. Unfinished Literature: Assia Djebar, Algerian WhiteIV. ‘Le fils naturel’: Rachid Boudjedra, The Repudiation and The Barbary FigsV. Algerian Hospitality in the Feminine: Boualem Sansal, Harraga and Rue DarwinChapter Three. Gender Trauma on the Line: Lebanese War LiteratureI. Taboo Subjects, Narrative Predicaments and the Front LineII. Dissident Dismembering/Remembering: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie RoseIII. Queerer and Queerer: Rachid al-Daïf, Passage to DuskIV. Gendered Space, Heteronormative Desire, Disavowed HistoriesV. Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine: A Novel in First ChaptersChapter Four. Palestine in the Colonial Present: Ruins, Rifts and RemaindersI. Writing Palestinian LivesII. Becoming Palestinian: Edward Said, Out of PlaceIII. An ‘Arab Woman’s Memoir’: Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother and MeIV. Resolution Deferred: Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima and ReturnV. Ruins and the Rift: Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House, Palestinian Walks and A Rift in TimeWorks CitedIndex

Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in Senior English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

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• Acknowledgements A Note on the Text IntroductionI. Postcolonial Studies and the Arab World: Towards a Critical CounterpointII. Postcolonial Arab NationsIII. Narrating Postcolonial Arab NationsChapter 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 BuildingChapter Two. ‘We Algerians’: National Emergencies and Alternative GenealogiesI. A Brief History of Algerian Violence: Two ‘Fanonian’ WarsII. An Alternative Algerian Vision: Albert Camus, The First Man and ‘The Guest’III. Unfinished Literature: Assia Djebar, Algerian WhiteIV. ‘Le fils naturel’: Rachid Boudjedra, The Repudiation and The Barbary FigsV. Algerian Hospitality in the Feminine: Boualem Sansal, Harraga and Rue DarwinChapter Three. Gender Trauma on the Line: Lebanese War LiteratureI. Taboo Subjects, Narrative Predicaments and the Front LineII. Dissident Dismembering/Remembering: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie RoseIII. Queerer and Queerer: Rachid al-Daïf, Passage to DuskIV. Gendered Space, Heteronormative Desire, Disavowed HistoriesV. Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine: A Novel in First ChaptersChapter Four. Palestine in the Colonial Present: Ruins, Rifts and RemaindersI. Writing Palestinian LivesII. Becoming Palestinian: Edward Said, Out of PlaceIII. An ‘Arab Woman’s Memoir’: Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother and MeIV. Resolution Deferred: Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima and ReturnV. Ruins and the Rift: Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House, Palestinian Walks and A Rift in TimeWorks CitedIndex