Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction Historical Transformations: Framing a New Consciousness in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel; 1 History and Representations of Otherness in ʻAli Idris's al-Nubi and Bahaʼ Tahir's Sunset Oasis; 2 Reading Cosmopolitanism in Yusuf Zaydan's Azazeel and Muʻtazz Futayha's Akhir yahud al-iskandariyya; 3 The Irrecuperable Heterogeneity of the Present in ʻAlaʼ al-Aswani's The Yacoubian Building and Chicago
  • 4 Heart Deserts: Memory and Myth between Life and Death in Asharaf al-Khumaysi's Manafi al-rabb and Miral al-Tahawi's The TentEpilogue: New Directions; Bibliography; Index