Product Description
by R. Sakr (Author)
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 Biography
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).
