'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies

This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts.

Author: R. Sakr
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 06/26/2013
Pages: 111
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781137294722

About the Author

Rita Sakr is Research Associate at the University of Kent, UK. She has published on Middle-Eastern studies and literatures and geographies of conflict. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (2011); with Caroline Rooney, she co-edited The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (2013).