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• 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 ʿAli Idris’s al-Nubi and Bahaʾ Tahir’s Sunset Oasis
• 2 Reading Cosmopolitanism in Yusuf Zaydan’s Azazeel and Muʿtazz Futayha’s Akhir yahud al-iskandariyya
• 3 The Irrecuperable Heterogeneity of the Present in ʿAlaʾ 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 Tent
• Epilogue: New Directions
• Bibliography
• Index