Arabic Science Fiction

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-91432-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4264 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Science Fiction

This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages with a theoretical concept he terms “double estrangement” wherein these texts provide social or political criticism through estrangement and simultaneously critique their own societies’ inability or refusal to engage in the sort of modernization that would lead the Arab world back to leadership in science and technology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:Introduction.- Chapter 2: Postcolonial Literature and Arabic SF.- Chapter 3: Arabic SF: Definitions and Origins.- Chapter 4: Criticism and Theory of Arabic SF.- Chapter 5: Double Estrangement in Nihad Sharif’s The Conqueror of Time.- Chapter 6: Continuity Within Rupture in Two Novels by Mustafa Mahmud.- Chapter 7: “Utopia” as a Critique of Utopia in Sabri Musa’s The Gentleman from the Spinach Field.- Chapter 8: Male Gaze as Colonial Gaze in ’Ahmad ‘Abd al-Salam al-Baqqali’s The Blue Flood.- Chapter 9: Mysticism and SF in Talib ‘Umran’s Beyond The Veil of Time.- Chapter 10: Inheritance and Intertextuality in a Three-Novel Series by Tiba ’Ahmad Ibrahim.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Campbell is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Georgia State University, USA. He has published articles in major science fiction journals on Arabic science fiction and also undertakes research in postcolonial Moroccan fiction. He is the author of Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution: The Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel, 1957–72 (2013).