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The Libyan novel : humans, animals and the poetics of vulnerability /
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, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: A Nation of Others; Part I: Survival; 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival; 2. The Primordial Turn; Part II: Signs and Cityscapes; 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel; 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel; Part III: Children of the Land; 5. Too-Long-a-Tale; 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices; Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Introduction: A Nation of Others Part I: Survival 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival 2. The Primordial Turn Part II: Signs and Cityscapes 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel Part III Children of the Land 5. Too-Long-a-Tale 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses Notes; Bibliography; Index.