The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant
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AcknowledgmentsixPrefacexiiiArabic Transliteration SymbolsxviGlossaries of Arabic NamesxviiIntroduction: The Experimental Arabic Novel and Comparative Modernisms1Chapter 1Modernist Ambivalence and the Beginnings of Narrative Experimentation15Existentialism and the Fragmentation of Narrative Voice15The Defamiliarization of Narrative39The Strategy of Ironic Distance54Chapter 2Recovering the Past: The "Arabization" of the Novel71Cultural and Historical Counternarrative: Abdelrahman Munif71Magical Realism: Salim Barakat87Folk Narrative and Subjective Expression97Chapter 3Rediscovering the Present: The Lebanese Civil War117Fragmented Reportage: Ghada Samman117The Patchwork Novel: Elias Khoury129The Dynamics of War and Sexuality140The Novel of Interior Situations159Chapter 4Redefining the Future: Questions of Artistic Choice175The "Mirage of Language" and the "Dust of Life"175The Conflict between Political and Artistic Commitment193The Limits of Masculine Perspective209The Dialectical Solution226Mimicking Postmodernity241Conclusion: The Experimental Arabic Novel and Postmodern Discourse255Notes281Bibliography297Index309
