Haunting Energies in the Arabic Novel : Oil, Ecology and the Spectral
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
ISBN-10
1399565001
ISBN-13
9781399565004
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2026
Print length
352 Pages
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Explores an environmental reading of spectres within the Arabic novel.
Demons, jinn, doubles and phantoms populate the Arabic novel, particularly as it turns to transforming, turbulent ecological spaces. From the 1960s, 70s and 80s, literary visions of unbearable heat and fragile, collapsing lands prefigure our current crisis. This book revisits key foundational works of modern Arabic fiction, arguing for the ecological uncanniness of their literary experimentation. Emphasising the shaping force of dams, road building, oil extraction and climate change, Haunting Energies forges new comparative paradigms for the Arabic novel, connected by way of rivers, pipelines and hydrological schemes.
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