Arabic Science Fiction.
Campbell, Ian, author.
2018
PN695-PN779
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Title Arabic Science Fiction.
Author Campbell, Ian, author.
ISBN 3319914332
9783319914336
9783319914329
3319914324
9783319914343 (print)
3319914340
9783030082543 (print)
3030082547
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91433-6
Imprint Springer International Publishing.
Published Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 322 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-91433-6 doi
Call Number PN695-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification 809
Summary 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.
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Series Studies in global science fiction.
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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 Nihād Sharīf's The Conqueror of Time
Chapter 6: Continuity Within Rupture in Two Novels by Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd
Chapter 7: "Utopia" as a Critique of Utopia in Ṣabrī Mūsā's The Gentleman from the Spinach Field
Chapter 8: Male Gaze as Colonial Gaze in 'Aḥmad 'Abd al-Salām al-Baqqāli's The Blue Flood
Chapter 9: Mysticism and SF in Ṭālib 'Umrān's Beyond The Veil of Time
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Intertextuality in a Three-Novel Series by Ṭība 'Aḥmad Ibrāhīm
Chapter 11: Conclusion.

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