Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature: Nationalism, Identity and Diaspora Qutait Tasnim
Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature: Nationalism, Identity and Diaspora Qutait Tasnim This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of…
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Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature: Nationalism, Identity and Diaspora Qutait Tasnim
This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and identity. Qutait situates Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter Against the critical tendency to dismiss nostalgia as a sentimental trope of immigrant narratives, Qutait sheds light on the creative uses to which it is put in the works of Rabih Alameddine, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Leila Aboulela, Randa Jarrar, Rawi Hage, and others.Arguing for the necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present.