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Tasnim Qutait is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London and a recipient of the International Postdoc Grant funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

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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

Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury USA 3pl
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/17/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780755641932, 978-0755641932
      ISBN10: 0755641930

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tasnim Qutait is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London and a recipient of the International Postdoc Grant funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

      Table of Contents
      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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