'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies
By (Author) R. Sakr
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
26th June 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Language: reference and general
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary theory
Cultural studies
823.9140994
Physical Properties
Hardback
111
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
307g
Description
This PalgravePivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts.
Author Bio
Rita Sakr is Research Associate at the University of Kent, UK. She has published on Middle-Eastern studies and literatures and geographies of conflict. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (2011); with Caroline Rooney, she co-edited The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (2013).
