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.
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.
Dr Charis Olszok is a Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. She has translated two novels and numerous pieces of short Arabic fiction into English. This is her first monograph.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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