The Libyan novel : humans, animals and the poetics of vulnerability / Charis Olszok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olszok, Charis, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction--Libya--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction.

Enlish fiction--Libya--History and criticism.

Enlish fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgements

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’: Th e Libyan Novel in Other Voices

Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

1-4744-9125-1

1-4744-5747-9

OCLC:

1306539224