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 ʿAli Idris's al-Nubi and Bahaʼ 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 ʿAlaʼ 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
Summary
Through a robust analysis of several new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt
