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Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions English, French German Language Fiction

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Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions English, French German Language Fiction
Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions English, French German Language Fiction

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Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions English, French German Language Fiction

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This book presents an analysis of English, French and German language fiction about the so-called Arab Spring. Through a transnational comparison of texts by a wide range of authors, both non-diasporic and diasporic, Julia Wurr investigates the commercialisation of Neo-Orientalist and securitised elements in short fiction and novels aimed at the Western literary market, and examines the role which the literary market plays in constructing, aestheticising and marketing mental boundaries between the Islamicate world and the West. By bringing together approaches from the social sciences with literary close readings, this study does not only carve out recurring tropes, frames and figurations which are complicit in diffusing a Neo-Orientalist and anti-Muslim imagery into mainstream society, but it also shows how influential frames of insecurity – precarity, affective masculinity and terror – refract the adverse psychosocial consequences of the neoliberal project into a securitisation of the Other.

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