Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-290) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: presenting the past: the Arabic novel and the dialectics of modernisation -- Nation-state -- Nation-without-state -- Legitimacy of the nation -- Impropriety of the state -- Decolonisation -- Modernisation -- Afterword: the future is a foreign country.
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