附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-411) and index.
Prefatory threshholds: Scheherazade avenged -- Postcolonial matters in Arabic narrative -- Writing Scheherazade now: the growth of modern Arabic fiction -- Debating ambivalence: socio-political engagements -- Arabs and the West: counternarratives and narrative encounters -- Women in Arabic -- A voice for dissent: rogues, rebels and saints -- Site as narrative -- Time in narrative -- Cultural contestation and self-definition in Arabic metafiction -- Scheherazade's gifts: Maḥfūz's narrative strategies in Layālī alf laylah.
摘要:This work covers the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. It discusses and questions a large number of novels show cultural diversity in the Arab world. It highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, and nationalism.
