Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Distress as a Narrative of Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction
Part I: Authoritarianism and Distress in Arabic Speculative Fiction
	Section 1: Isolation and the Dystopia of Place
		1 Mistrust in Quest Dystopia: Naguib Mahfouz’s The Journey of Ibn Fattouma and Youssef Ezzedin Eassa’s The Façade
		2 Inflexibility in Parallel Dystopia: Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia and Nihād Shārīf’s Residents of the Second World
	Section 2: Self-Estrangement and the Dystopia of Time
		3 Mistrust in Cyberpunk Dystopia: Aḥmad Wild Islim’s The Outsider and Mahmoud Othman’s Revolution 2053: The Beginning
		4 Inflexibility in Cultural Dystopia: al-Hādī Thābit’s What If Hannibal Returns and Līna Kīlānī’s The Seeds of the Devil
Part II: Inequity and Distress in Arabic Speculative Fiction
	Section 1: Meaninglessness and the Dystopia of the Mind
		5 Mistrust in Psychological Dystopia: Ṭība ʾaḥmadal-ʾIbrāhīm’s The Pale Human and ʿumar Ḥāziq’s The First Novelist of the City
		6 Inflexibility in Intellectual Dystopia: Mohammad Rabie’s Planet Amber and Buthayna Al-Essa’s The Guardian of the Surface of the World
	Section 2: Normlessness and the Dystopia of the Apocalypse
		7 Mistrust in Post-Revolt Dystopia: Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue and Mohammad Rabie’s Otared
		8 Inflexibility in Post-War Dystopia: Wāsīnī al-Aʿraj’s 2084: The Tale of the Last Arab and Aḥmad al-Zaʿtarī’s Bending Over the Corpse of Amman
Conclusion: Distress, Dystopia, and a Speculative Fiction Turn in Arabic Literature
Bibliography
Index