Global Arab Fiction

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Literary Prizes and the Global Arab Novel
2. Violence and the Global Arab Novel
3. Speculative Modes
4. Queer Sexualities
5. Global Margins
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Nadia Atia is Reader in Postcolonial and Global Literature in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her current research examines representations of home in diasporic Iraqi fiction, queer sexualities in Arab writing, and crime and other Arab 'genre' fiction.
Lindsey Moore is Reader in Postcolonial Literatures in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Her current research is on Palestinian literature in English and on literary and other ways of countermapping urban Palestine.

Summary

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Atia, Nadia Moore Atia, Atia Nadia, Lindsey Moore, Moore Lindsey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367173647
• ISBN: 978-0-367-17364-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Global Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, arab literature;arabic novel;middle eastern;postcolonial