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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781474457477
035 _a(DE-B1597)616001
035 _a(OCoLC)1306539224
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082 0 4 _a892.7099612
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aOlszok, Charis
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Libyan Novel :
_bHumans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability /
_cCharis Olszok.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
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490 0 _aEdinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tSeries Editor’s Foreword --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tNote on Translation and Transliteration --
_tIntroduction: A Nation of Others --
_tPart I Survival --
_t1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival --
_t2. The Primordial Turn --
_tPart II Signs and Cityscapes --
_t3. God’s Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel --
_t4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel --
_tPart III Children of the Land --
_t5. Too-Long-a-Tale --
_t6. ‘Une histoire de mouche’: Th e Libyan Novel in Other Voices --
_tAfterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTraces the developments in Libyan novel writing from the 1970s to 2011 through encounters between human, animal and landLocates the study of internationally renowned authors Ibrahim al-Kuni (b. 1948) and Hisham Matar (b. 1970) within the context of their Libyan compatriotsAnalyses works by al-Sadiq al-Nayhum and Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih, previously neglected in English-language scholarshipAdds nuance to the understanding of animals as straightforward political allegory, and brings a non-western, Islamic perspective to the study of the ‘creaturely’ Tackles postcolonial themes from the little-studied case of Italy and LibyaSuggests new approaches to postmodernism within a politically and economically isolated countryAnalysing 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 (makhlūqāt) in which they are framed. As Libya transforms into a dictatorial, rentier state, animals represent multi-layered allegories for human suffering, while also becoming focal points for empathy and ethics in their own right. Within reflections on Italian colonisation and ensuing forms of political and social oppression, concomitant with oil, urbanisation, exile and war, staged in remote deserts, isolated coastlines and neglected city parks, The Libyan Novel examines how physical, emotional and intellectual hardship prompts empathetic gazes across species lines. Through engagement with the folkloric and Sufi traditions that define the country’s past and shape its modern fiction, it further traces the spiritually, environmentally and politically holistic imaginings that contest a precarious reality.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 4 _aIslamic Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474457477
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474457477
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