Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-1759-3 (ISBN)
Arguing for the necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present. Qutait situates Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter ranging from the Islamic golden age, the era of anti-colonial struggle, the failures of the postcolonial state and of pan-Arabism, and the perennial issue of the diaspora's relationship to the homeland.
Making a contribution to the transnational turn in memory studies while focusing on a region underrepresented in this field, this book will be of interest for researchers interested in cultural memory, postcolonial studies and the literatures of the Middle East.
Tasnim Qutait is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London and a recipient of the International Postdoc Grant funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
1. Introduction
Defining Nostalgia
The Uses of Nostalgia
Language and Identity
Reading Anglophone Arab Writing
Memory as A Strategic Aesthetic
2. Chapter One: “The Chaos of Lost Empires”
Standing By the Ruins
The Imagined Present of the Past
Traces and Translations
3. Chapter Two: “A War Between Yesterday and Tomorrow”
Rewriting Colonial Histories
Postcolonial Parallels
Weaving Connections
4. Chapter Three: “Fractured Country, Broken Home”
Leaders, Fathers and The Un-Homely Home
Nostalgia for Mother/Lands
Cacophonous Countries
5. Chapter Four: “Europe is My Dark Continent”
Transplanted Nationalism
Diaspora Community and Instability “Back Home”
Transnational Islam in the Diaspora
Mongrel Humanity and Undetermined History
6. Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Written Culture and Identity |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 458 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7556-1759-2 / 0755617592 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-1759-3 / 9780755617593 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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