The combination of classroom-friendly essays, to guide students through the set novels on Anglo-Arab literature courses, and sophisticated critical analyses of the major Anglo-Arab novelists for advanced scholars make this the ultimate, one-stop resource.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English - Nouri Gana
• Part I: Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality
• 1. The Rise of the Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid - Waïl S. Hassan
• 2. Beyond Orientalism: Khalid, the Secular City and the Transcultural Self - Geoffrey Nash
• 3. The Incestuous (Post)Colonial: Soueif's Map of Love and the Second Birth of the Egyptian Novel in English - Shaden M. Tageldin
• 4. Drinking, Gambling and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali's Search for Cosmopolitan Agency - Deborah A. Starr
• 5. Mobile Belonging? The Global “Given” in the Work of Etel Adnan - Mary N. Layoun
• 6. Burning, Memory and Postcolonial Agency in Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Ahmed Idrissi Alami
• 7. Zenga Zenga and Bunga Bunga: The Novels of Hisham Matar and a Critique of Gaddafi's Libya - Christopher Micklethwait
• Part II: Force-fields: Ethnic Ties and Transnational Solidarities
• 8. In Search of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent - Nouri Gana
• 9. Europe and Its Others: The Novels of Jamal Mahjoub - Jopi Nyman
• 10. Space, Embodiment, Identity and Resistance in the Novels of Fadia Faqir - Lindsey Moore
• 11. The Arab Canadian Novel and the Rise of Rawi Hage - F. Elizabeth Dahab
• 12. The Arab Australian Novel: Situating Diasporic and Multicultural Literature - Saadi Nikro
• 13. Identity, Transformation and the Anglophone Arab Novel - Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward
• 14. Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine: A Druze Novel as World Literature? - Michelle Hartman
• Part III: Prospects/Challenges: Authority, Pedagogy and the Market Industry
• 15. Invisible Ethnic: Mona Simpson and the Space of the Ethnic Literature Market - Mara Naaman
• 16. The Challenges of Orientalism: Teaching about Islam and Masculinity in Leila Aboulela's The Translator - Brendan Smyth
• 17. Teaching from Cover to Cover: Arab Women's Novels in the Classroom - Heather M. Hoyt
• 18. Perils and Pitfalls of Marketing the Arab Novel in English - Samia Serageldin
• Bibliography