Julia Wurr is Junior Professor for Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2019, she completed a Ph.D. thesis exploring the Neo-Orientalist commercialisation of the Arab uprisings in English, French and German language fiction. Her current research focuses on the relationship between identity and inequality in Postcolonial Theory as well as on the aesthetic and ideological dimensions of natalism and anti-natalism in postcolonial fiction.

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• AcknowledgementsFrom Tahrir to Terror: Neo-Orientalism and the ‘Arab Spring’The Arab Uprisings and the Western Literary MarketPrecarity Far and Near: The Arab Uprisings in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Par le feu and Jonas Lüscher’s Frühling der BarbarenAffective Masculinity and the Arab Uprisings: Adam Thirlwell’s Kapow! and Jochen Beyse’s RebellionFigurations of Terror: The Islamist Rage Boy in Karim Alrawi’s Book of Sands and Mathias Énard’s Rue des VoleursThe Arab Uprisings between Inequality, Insecurity and IdentityReferencesIndex

Julia Wurr is Junior Professor for Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2019, she completed a Ph.D. thesis exploring the Neo-Orientalist commercialisation of the Arab uprisings in English, French and German language fiction. Her current research focuses on the relationship between identity and inequality in Postcolonial Theory as well as on the aesthetic and ideological dimensions of natalism and anti-natalism in postcolonial fiction.

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• AcknowledgementsFrom Tahrir to Terror: Neo-Orientalism and the ‘Arab Spring’The Arab Uprisings and the Western Literary MarketPrecarity Far and Near: The Arab Uprisings in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Par le feu and Jonas Lüscher’s Frühling der BarbarenAffective Masculinity and the Arab Uprisings: Adam Thirlwell’s Kapow! and Jochen Beyse’s RebellionFigurations of Terror: The Islamist Rage Boy in Karim Alrawi’s Book of Sands and Mathias Énard’s Rue des VoleursThe Arab Uprisings between Inequality, Insecurity and IdentityReferencesIndex

Julia Wurr is Junior Professor for Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2019, she completed a Ph.D. thesis exploring the Neo-Orientalist commercialisation of the Arab uprisings in English, French and German language fiction. Her current research focuses on the relationship between identity and inequality in Postcolonial Theory as well as on the aesthetic and ideological dimensions of natalism and anti-natalism in postcolonial fiction.

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• AcknowledgementsFrom Tahrir to Terror: Neo-Orientalism and the ‘Arab Spring’The Arab Uprisings and the Western Literary MarketPrecarity Far and Near: The Arab Uprisings in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Par le feu and Jonas Lüscher’s Frühling der BarbarenAffective Masculinity and the Arab Uprisings: Adam Thirlwell’s Kapow! and Jochen Beyse’s RebellionFigurations of Terror: The Islamist Rage Boy in Karim Alrawi’s Book of Sands and Mathias Énard’s Rue des VoleursThe Arab Uprisings between Inequality, Insecurity and IdentityReferencesIndex