Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032303864
ISBN-10: 1032303867
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Seria Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
ISBN-10: 1032303867
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Seria Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Distress as a Narrative of Arabic Speculative Fiction.
Part One: Authoritarianism and Distress in Arabic Speculative Fiction
8. Inflexibility in Post-War Dystopia: Wāsīnī al-Aʿraj’s 2084: The Tale of the Last Arab and Aḥmad al- Zaʿtarī’s Bending Over the Corpse of Amman
Conclusion: Distress, Dystopia, and a Speculative Fiction Turn in Arabic Literature
References
Index
Introduction: Reading Distress as a Narrative of Arabic Speculative Fiction.
Part One: Authoritarianism and Distress in Arabic Speculative Fiction
- Isolation and the Dystopia of Place
1. Mistrust in Quest Dystopia: Naguib Mahfouz’s The Journey of Ibn Fattouma and Ezzedin Eassa’s The Façade.
2. Inflexibility in Parallel Dystopia:
Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia and Nihād Shārīf’s Residents of the Second World. - Self-Estrangement and the Dystopia of Time
3. Mistrust in Cyberpunk Dystopia:
Aḥmad Wild Islim’s The Outsider and Mahmoud Othman’s Revolution 2053: The Beginning.
4. Inflexibility in Cultural Dystopia:
al-Hādī Thābit’s What if Hannibal Returns and Līna Kīlānī’s The Seeds of the Devil
- Meaninglessness and the Dystopia of the Mind
5. Mistrust in Psychological Dystopia:
Ṭība ʾaḥmad al- ʾIbrāhīm’s The Pale Human and ʿumar Ḥāziq’s The First Novelist of the City
6. Inflexibility in Intellectual Dystopia:
Mohammad Rabie’s Planet Amber and Buthayna Al-Essa’s The Guardian of the Surface of the World. - Normlessness and the Dystopia of the Apocalypse
8. Inflexibility in Post-War Dystopia: Wāsīnī al-Aʿraj’s 2084: The Tale of the Last Arab and Aḥmad al- Zaʿtarī’s Bending Over the Corpse of Amman
Conclusion: Distress, Dystopia, and a Speculative Fiction Turn in Arabic Literature
References
Index
Notă biografică
Wessam Elmeligi is Assistant Professor, Director of the Center for Arab American Studies, and Director of the Comparative Literature Certificate and Arabic Translation Certificate at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research includes Arabic and comparative literature, art, and cinema. He is working on a project of Arab poetics, formulating the-oretical frameworks to examine Arabic literature. In this project, he has published two books. The first is The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia, a critical anthology of Arab women poets which unpacks Arab women’s classical poetry as a poetics of rejection. The second book is Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return, which examines Arabic migration narratives as a poetics of return. He is also a graphic novel artist and author, and has published two graphic novels, Y and Y, and Jamila.