Arab Displacements

Experimental Literature, Necropolitics and Decolonial Hauntology

AvRita Sakr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Beskrivning

This book examines important contemporary prose works by the Iraqi-born writer Ḥasan Balāsim, the Palestinian writer ‘Āṭif Abu Sayf, the Egyptian writer Basmah ‘Abd al-‘Azīz and the Syrian writer Samar Yazbek. It theorises various forms that expand Arabic literary history in relation to magical realism, surrealism, dystopian fiction, hybrid fantasy and the literatures of nightmare and horror. It proposes ‘more-than-realism’ as a framework to address these intermedial and transmedial narratives that, through the long duration and extension of their hauntological time-spaces, accommodate the surplus of harm, trauma and death, as well as the uncontainability of resistance by humans and the more-than-human world. These narratives communicate decolonial imaginaries emerging in death-worlds that encompass war, siege, food insecurity, torture, neoliberal authoritarianism, and the securitisation of borders with manhunts. In these case studies, mutilation includes severing and affective injury, disappearance, dislocation and detention while de-composition opens to the possibilities of re-composition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399542418

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Rita Sakr is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures in the Department of English at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is the co-editor of two critical collections, co-director and coproducer of a documentary film on Beirut, and the author of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (Palgrave, 2013) and Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2011; Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). Her articles and book chapters on contemporary Arab(ic) and Kurdish literatures and forced displacement have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, as well as in several edited volumes published by Cambridge UP, Edinburgh UP, I. B. Tauris, Oxford UP, Routledge and Toronto UP, among others.

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Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Fugue out of shame: Ḥasan Balāsim’s re/membering fragment-shards from Iraq to the European forest/border2. From hospitality to relationality: ‘Āṭif Abu Sayf’s more-than-human life narrative against techno-biopolitics in Gaza3. Dis-appearing lives: Basmah ‘Abd al-‘Azīz’s subversion of the documentary practices of authoritarian repression4. Besieged bodies; planetary imagination: Samar Yazbek’s political aesthetics of uncontainabilityAfterwor(l)d(s)BibliographyIndex