TY - BOOK AU - Gana,Nouri TI - Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture SN - 9780748685554 AV - PR129.A65 -- E35 2013eb U1 - 820.98927 PY - 2013/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - English literature -- Arab authors -- History and criticism KW - English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English -- Novel Formations: Transnational Collaborative Entanglements -- The Preoccupations of the Arab Novel in English -- Notes -- Part I - Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality -- Chapter 1 - The Rise of the Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid -- Notes -- Chapter 2 - Beyond Orientalism: Khalid, the Secular City and the Transcultural Self -- Khalid, Migration and the Arab Experience of Secularization -- Khalid and the Spiritual Challenges of the Secular City -- Khalid and Orientalism -- Khalid and the Authentic Transcultural Self -- In Conclusion: The Book of Khalid as Pioneer Arab Anglophone Novel -- Notes -- Chapter 3 - The Incestuous (Post)Colonial: Soueif 's Map of Love and the Second Birth of the Egyptian Novel in English -- Past or Post? The Problem of Generation -- Euro-Egyptian Renaissances and the "Othered" Mother -- The "Impurity" of Modern Arabic -- Notes -- Chapter 4 - Drinking, Gambling and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali's Search for Cosmopolitan Agency -- Postcolonial Anger -- Tripartite Assault on Egyptian Identity -- Cosmopolitan Jew -- Infinite Ways of Being -- Notes -- Chapter 5 - Mobile Belonging? The Global "Given" in the Work of Etel Adnan -- Notes -- Chapter 6 - Burning, Memory and Postcolonial Agency in Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits -- Language Politics and the Politics of Exclusion -- History, Memory and Identity -- Agency Regained -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 - Zenga Zenga and Bunga Bunga: The Novels of Hisham Matar and a Critique of Gaddafi's Libya -- Disciplinary Violence and Biopower in In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance -- Necropower and Anatomy of a Disappearance -- Conclusion; Notes -- Part II - Force-fields: Ethnic Ties and Transnational Solidarities -- Chapter 8 - In Search of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent -- Moorish Passages -- Andalusian Imaginary Marks -- Notes -- Chapter 9 - Europe and Its Others: The Novels of Jamal Mahjoub -- The Politics of Unbelonging: Navigation of a Rainmaker and Wings of Dust -- Historicizing Euro-Arab Encounters: In the Hour of Signs and The Carrier -- Contemporary European Migrants in Travelling with Djinns -- Others within Europe: The Drift Latitudes -- Coda -- Notes -- Chapter 10 - Space, Embodiment, Identity and Resistance in the Novels of Fadia Faqir -- Home, Prison, Asylum -- Migration, Margins, Mappings -- Decoding, Reframing, Disappearing -- Notes -- Chapter 11 - The Arab Canadian Novel and the Rise of Rawi Hage -- Arab Canadian Literature and the Rise of the Novel -- Plunging Underground: Rawi Hage and the Rise of the Cockroach -- Notes -- Chapter 12 - The Arab Australian Novel: Situating Diasporic and Multicultural Literature -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Chapter 13 - Identity, Transformation and the Anglophone Arab Novel -- Centers and Margins: An Unstable Trope -- Place, Dialogics and the Construction of Identity -- Time, Indeterminacy and the Performance of Identity -- Linguistic Determinants of Identity -- Notes -- Chapter 14 - Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine: A Druze Novel as World Literature? -- The Druze Novel -- Towards a World Literature Approach -- Ironic Nostalgia: The Grandfather-Granddaughter Relationship -- A Cosmopolitan Druze Identity -- Who is Hammoud Nour al-Din? -- Divine and Druze: Two Sarahs in One -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part III - Prospects/Challenges: Authority, Pedagogy and the Market Industry -- Chapter 15 - Invisible Ethnic: Mona Simpson and the Space of the Ethnic Literature Market; Thinking Past Hybridity: Toward a Theory of Emergence -- Mona Simpson's The Lost Father -- Moving Beyond Ethnic Literature? -- Redefining the Political Project of an Arab American Literature -- Notes -- Chapter 16 - The Challenges of Orientalism: Teaching about Islam and Masculinity in Leila Aboulela's The Translator -- Notes -- Chapter 17 - Teaching from Cover to Cover: Arab Women's Novels in the Classroom -- Students'/Readers' Expectations about Arab Women's Novels -- Complicating Students'/Readers' Expectations -- Transforming Students'/Readers' Perceptions -- Notes -- Chapter 18 - Perils and Pitfalls of Marketing the Arab Novel in English -- The Curious History of The Cairo House -- First cover: authenticity and labeling -- Second cover: the Western reader's point of view -- Third cover: the image of the imprint -- Fourth cover: the veiled woman trope -- Fifth cover: the Muslim woman and the law -- Sixth cover: coming home -- The perfect cover metaphor manqué -- Perils of Publishing: Covering Arab Writers -- Image and the oriental fantasy -- The problematic of point of view -- Authenticity -- Lost in translation -- The Post-9/11 Picture -- Challenges and opportunities -- External agendas -- The Arab Spring is still a work in progress -- Projections of a field in flux -- Organizing around an appellation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - The novel is a largely imported European genre, coming relatively late to the history of Arab letters. It should therefore perhaps come as no surprise that the first novel to have been written by an Arab was written in English (Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid, 1911). However, subsequent years saw the flourishing of, first, Arabic novels, then the Francophone Arab novel. Only in the last two decades has the Anglophone Arab novel experienced a second coming, and it is this re-emergence of literary activity that is the focus of this collection. Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo Arab literature to critical debate, the Companion presents a range of critical responses and pedagogical approaches to the Anglo Arab novel. It offers both classroom-friendly essays and critically sophisticated analyses, bringing together original critical studies of the major Anglo Arab novelists from established and emerging scholars in the field UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1961922 ER -