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The Libyan novel
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- Book Synopsis
- 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. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhluqat) in which they are framed.
- About The Author
- Charis Olszok is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Newnham College. Her first monograph, The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability (EUP, 2020), charted the Libyan novel through its vision of human and nonhuman entanglement. Since then, she has published on ecology, oil and the fantastic in Arabic literature. She has also translated several works of Arabic fiction into English.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781474457453
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (31 July 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 622 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 25 mm
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