Modern Arabic Fantastic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

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The rich and lengthy Arabic corpus of fantastic fiction is one hidden in plain sight. In more broad studies of both fantastic fiction and Arabic literary and cultural history, it is notably absent. It is rarely, if ever, read as a corpus, much less as one with a rich, meandering, and turbulent history.As fantastic modes have risen in global popularity over the past two decades, this book joins the revisionist wave of exciting critical interventions questioning the cornerstones of cultural history. It reads the current proliferation of Arabic fantastic stories as a potent return of the repressed and illuminates the persistence of premodern forms and narratives in contemporary cultural practice. Moreover, the book proposes essential categories, epistemes and historical timelines for effectively understanding the corpus of the modern Arabic fantastic, arguing that the fantastic is becoming a modern realism of our times.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399556033

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Alexandra Shraytekh is Mellon-Bridge Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Literary and Visual Studies at Tufts University. Her academic publications include articles and book chapters on Gothic literature; magical realism; Arab-Jewish cinematic traditions; imaginaries of the nation. Her Arabic novels have been translated to English, French and German. She is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award (2022-2027) and was the Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2022).

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This original and transformative book will become the necessary starting reference for Arabic literary scholars working on speculative fiction. I expect it will even inspire some contemporary Arab novelists who engage with criticism in English and want to better understand the roots and ramifications of their own literary practice.

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Preface: The Phantom RiderIntroduction - Literature of Doubt: Defining the Arabic FantasticPart 1: Theory1. Marvels and Miracles: The Premodern Aesthetics of the Arabic Fantastic2. The Arabic Fantastic, 2.0: A Theory of ReadingPart 2: History3. Efendi Gothic, or: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel4. The Arabic Fantastic as Planetary Fiction: The Poetics of TransmigrationPart 3: Reading5. Horror for a Horrifying World: What the Arabic Fantastic Teaches Us About ReadingConclusion - The Fantastic Art of FailureWorks Cited