Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Melancholy Acts
1 Melancholy Formations: From Nakba to Naksa and Beyond
2 Melancholy Forms: Poetry in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
3 Enduring Left Melancholy: Recasting the Crisis of the Nasserite Intellectual
4 Melancholy Manhood: Modernity and Neopatriarchy in Tunisian Cinema
5 Melancholy Ends: Palestinian Film and Narrative Martyrdom
6 Melancholy Islam: Jihad, Jouissance, and Female Clairvoyance
Epilogue: Melancholy Critique
Acknowledgments
The Unsheltering Sky: A Note on the Cover Art
Bibliography
Index
About the autors