R. Sakr

'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Palgrave Pivot 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-29472-2
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 111
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781137294722
• ISBN-10: 1137294728
• Artikelnr.: 39044444

Autorenporträt

Rita Sakr

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction: Anticipating, Writing, and Rebelling in the Arab World 2. 'A way of making a space for ourselves where we can make the best of ourselves': Writing Egypt's 'Tahrir' 3. 'Here it's either silence or exile': The Stories of 'Rats' that Rebelled in Libya 4. 'We would meet them one day, and call them to account for their oppression': Post-2005 Prison Writings in Syria Bibliography Index