Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: A Nation of Others; Part I: Survival; 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival; 2. The Primordial Turn; Part II: Signs and Cityscapes; 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel; 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel; Part III: Children of the Land; 5. Too-Long-a-Tale; 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices; Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Introduction: A Nation of Others Part I: Survival 1. Animal Fable in Novels of Survival 2. The Primordial Turn Part II: Signs and Cityscapes 3. God's Wide Land: War, Melancholy and the Camel 4. Absent Stories in the Urban Novel Part III Children of the Land 5. Too-Long-a-Tale 6. 'Une histoire de mouche': Libyan Novels in Other Voices Afterword: Breaking Fevers and Strange Metamorphoses Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land
