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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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| Summary |
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, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land. |
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Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: A Nation of Others; Part I: Survival; 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival; 2. The Primordial Turn; Part II: Signs and Cityscapes; 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel; 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel; Part III: Children of the Land; 5. Too-Long-a-Tale; 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices; Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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Introduction: A Nation of Others Part I: Survival 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival 2. The Primordial Turn Part II: Signs and Cityscapes 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel Part III Children of the Land 5. Too-Long-a-Tale 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arabic fiction -- Libya -- History and criticism.
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Arabic fiction. |
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Libya. |
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English fiction -- Libya -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. |
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Arabic fiction -- Libya -- History and criticism. |
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Animals in literature. |
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Human beings in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474457452 9781474457453 (OCoLC)1157986696 |
| ISBN |
9781474457477 (electronic book) |
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1474457479 (electronic book) |
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9781474457484 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474457487 |
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1474457452 |
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9781474457453 |
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