Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature

1. Introduction
Defining Nostalgia
The Uses of Nostalgia
Language and Identity
Reading Anglophone Arab Writing
Memory as A Strategic Aesthetic

2. Chapter One: "The Chaos of Lost Empires"
Standing By the Ruins
The Imagined Present of the Past
Traces and Translations

3. Chapter Two: "A War Between Yesterday and Tomorrow"
Rewriting Colonial Histories
Postcolonial Parallels
Weaving Connections

4. Chapter Three: "Fractured Country, Broken Home"
Leaders, Fathers and The Un-Homely Home
Nostalgia for Mother/Lands
Cacophonous Countries

5. Chapter Four: "Europe is My Dark Continent"
Transplanted Nationalism
Diaspora Community and Instability "Back Home"
Transnational Islam in the Diaspora
Mongrel Humanity and Undetermined History

6. Conclusion

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• Estudos islâmicos
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Nostalgia: geral