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03643aam a2200385 i 4500 001 A21FBB42FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 230219t20232023sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3031279034 020 $a 9783031279034 035 $a (OCoLC)1369601609 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d FUG $d OCLCL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PJ7577 $b .Y68 2023 082 04 $a 892.7/3709 $2 23 100 1 $a Younas, Abidam, $e author. 245 10 $a Post-Arab Spring narratives : $b a minor literature in the making / $c Abida Younas. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2023] 300 $a ix, 187 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world 520 $a This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze's and Fâelix Guattari's theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar Jarrar all focus on the Arab world in their work; on the lives of ordinary and minority peoples; and on the revolutions of their respective nations. This volume shows how these contemporary Anglo-Arab novelists exhibit linguistic experimentation akin to Deleuze's and Guattari's theory of 'deterritorialization', but in a way that is unique to Anglo-Arab writing. The selected novelists repudiate the use of metamorphosis, which is usually an essential part of the deterritorialization of a major language. Instead, their writings enact the minor practice of linguistic deterritorialization by using metaphor and by incorporating contemporary modes of protest like popular slogans, tweets, and chants. These authors challenge the conventions of minor literature and, by adopting this mode of deterritorialization, foreground the experiences of officially silenced voices. Abida Younas is a postgraduate tutor at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has contributed to a number of journals, including "Magical Realism and Metafiction in Post-Arab Spring Literature: Narratives of Discontent or Celebration?" for the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2018). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Writing the Present to Commemorate: Personal Narratives of the Arab Revolution in Ahdaf Soueif's Memoirs of a City Transformed and Hisham Matar's The Return -- Chapter 3: Magical Realism in Karim Alrawi's Book of Sands and Metafiction in Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles: Rethinking Minor Literature -- Chapter 4: Post-Arab Spring Cairo in Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicles of a Last Summer and Omar Robert Hamilton's The City Always Wins: Urban Narratives as Minor Literature -- Chapter 5: The Humanitarian Narrative of the Arab Spring in Saleem Haddad's Guapa and Nada Awar Jarrar's An Unsafe Haven: Further Toward Minor Literature -- Chapter 6: Post-partum. 648 7 $a Since 2000 $2 fast 650 0 $a Arabic fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Arab Spring, 2010- $x Influence. 650 7 $a Arabic fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812274 650 7 $a English literature $x Arab authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01765349 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783031279041 830 0 $a Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417024855.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A21FBB42FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search