Novel and Nation in the Muslim World: Literary Contributions and National Identities

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
The End of Literary Narratives?....Pages 15-29
Front Matter....Pages 3-31
Writing the Future in Early Turkish Republican Literature....Pages 33-47
Becoming Azerbaijani through Language: On the Impact of Calil Məmmədquluzadə’s Anamin Kitabi....Pages 48-64
The Kurdish Novel and National Identity-Formation across Borders....Pages 65-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Nedjma: Kateb Yacine’s Deconstruction of Algeria’s Colonial Historiography....Pages 81-97
For Bread Alone: How Moroccan Literature Let the Subalterns Speak....Pages 98-113
Mahattat: “Stations” on the Road to the Libyan Nation....Pages 114-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Deconstructing Nation and Religion: Young Saudi Women Novelists....Pages 133-151
Wajdi al-Ahdal and the Broken Yemeni Nation....Pages 152-169
Popular Religion and the Entry into Political Modernity as Seen in The Last of the Angels....Pages 170-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Utopia and Dystopia in Early-Modern Persian Literature: Representations of the Advent of Modernity to Iran....Pages 185-200
Indian Shi’a Muslims and the Idea of Home in Rahi Masoom Reza’s Work....Pages 201-214
Afterword: Nations and Fictions....Pages 215-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-226