The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English

Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this reference companion spans from the first Arab novel in 1911 right up to the present day, focusing on the resurgence of the Anglo-Arabic novel in the last 20 years. The combination of classroom-friendly essays, to guide students through the set novels on Anglo-Arab literature courses, and sophisticated critical analyses of the major Anglo-Arab novelists for advanced scholars make this the ultimate, one-stop resource. You'll find chapters on authors such as Ameen Rihani, Ahdaf Soueif, Waguih Ghali, Etel Adnan and Diana Abu-Jaber, and interviews with Laila Lalami, Hisham Matar and Fadia Faqir.

Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (2011) and editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects (EUP, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English, Nouri Gana; Part I: Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality; 1. The Rise of the Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid, Wail S. Hassan; 2. Beyond Orientalism: Khalid, the Secular City, and the Transcultural Self, Geoffrey Nash; 3. The Incestuous (Post) Colonial: Soueif's Map of Love and the Second Birth of the Egyptian Novel in English, Shaden M. Tageldin; 4. Drinking, Gambling and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali's Search for Cosmopolitan Agency, Deborah A. Starr; 5. Mobile Belonging? The Global 'Given' in the Work of Etel Adnan, Mary N. Layoun; 6. Burning, Memory and Postcolonial Agency in Laila Lalami's Hope and other Dangerous Pursuits, Ahmed Idrissi Alami; 7. Zenga Zenga and Bunga Bunga: The Novels of Hisham Matar and a Critique of Gadhafi's Libya, Christopher Micklethwait; Part II: Force-fields: Ethnic Ties and Transnational Solidarities; 8. In Search of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent, Nouri Gana; 9. Europe and Its Others: The Novels of Jamal Mahjoub, Jopi Nyman; 10. Space, Embodiment, Identity and Resistance in the Novels of Fadia Faqir, Lindsey Moore; 11. The Arab Canadian Novel and the Rise of Rawi Hage, F. Elizabeth Dahab; 12. The Arab Australian Novel: Situating Diasporic and Multicultural Literature, Saadi Nikro; 13. Identity, Transformation and the Anglophone Arab Novel, Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward; 14. Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine: A Druze Novel as World Literature?, Michelle Hartman; Part III: Prospects/Challenges: Authority, Pedagogy and the Market Industry; 15. Invisible Ethnic: Mona Simpson and the Space of the Ethnic Literature Market, Mara Naaman; 16. The Challenges of Orientalism: Teaching about Islam and Masculinity in Leila Aboulela's The Translator, Brendan Smyth; 17. Teaching from Cover to Cover: Arab Women's Novels in the Classroom, Heather Hoyt; 18. Perils and Pitfalls of Marketing the Arab Novel in English, Samia Serageldin; Bibliography; Index.