Libyan Novel

Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability

AvCharis Olszok

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhlūqāt) in which they are framed.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:622 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474457453

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Charis Olszok is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Newnham College. Her first monograph, The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability (EUP, 2020), charted the Libyan novel through its vision of human and nonhuman entanglement. Since then, she has published on ecology, oil and the fantastic in Arabic literature. She has also translated several works of Arabic fiction into English.

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Charis Olszok's The Libyan Novel is an original and welcomed contribution to the overlooked Libyan culture and creative writing. It goes beyond the negative representations of Libyan society and culture such as terrorism and dictatorship. The book presents a careful reading of the Libyan novel through new themes of literature, animals and nature.

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Introduction: A Nation of OthersPart I: Survival1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival2. The Primordial TurnPart II: Signs and Cityscapes3. God’s Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel4. Absent Stories in the Urban NovelPart III Children of the Land5. Too-Long-a-Tale6. ‘Une histoire de mouche’: Libyan Novels in Other VoicesAfterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange MetamorphosesNotes; Bibliography; Index