The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions

Francesca Bellino, Annali, Sezione Orientale [T]he Handbook provides valuable insights into an issue that is undoubtedly one of the most challenging to deal with in the history of Arab/ic literature.

Journal of Arabic Literature Wal Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome.

Wail S. Hassan is a Professor of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (OUP, 2011).

Acknowledgements Transliteration List of Contributors Introduction Part I: Continuities Chapter 1: Toward a Theory of the Arabic Novel Wail S. Hassan Chapter 2: The Arabic Novel and History Roger Allen Chapter 3: The Medieval Turn in Modern Arabic Narrative Muhsin al-Musawi Chapter 4: The Novel and the Maqama Jaakko Hameen-Anttila Chapter 5: A Thousand and One Nights and the Novel Richard van Leeuwen Chapter 6: Translations and Adaptations from the European Novel, 1835-1925 Samah Selim Chapter 7: Women and the Emergence of the Arabic Novel Marilyn Booth Part II: Developments Chapter 8: Algeria Debbie Cox Chapter 9: Bahrain Barbara Michalak-Pikulska & Wail S. Hassan Chapter 10: Egypt to 1959 Roger Allen Chapter 11: Egypt since 1960 Marie-Therese Abdel-Messih Chapter 12: Eritrea Xavier Luffin Chapter 13: Iraq Haytham Bahoora Chapter 14: Jordan Walid Hamarneh Chapter 15: Kuwait Olatunbosun Ishaq Tijani Chapter 16: Lebanon Elise Salem Chapter 17: Libya Ali Abdullatif Ahmida Chapter 18: Mauritania J.S. Blalack Chapter 19: Morocco Gonzalo Fernandez Parrilla Chapter 20: Oman Barbara Machalak-Pikulska & Wail S. Hassan Chapter 21: Palestine Ibrahim Taha Chapter 22: Qatar Mohammad Mostafa Saleem Chapter 23: Saudi Arabia Moneera al-Ghadeer Chapter 24: Sub-Saharan Africa Xavier Luffin Chapter 25: Sudan and South Sudan Xavier Luffin Chapter 26: Syria Alexa Firat Chapter 27: Tunisia Douja Mamelouk Chapter 28: United Arab Emirates Rehab al-Kilani Chapter 29: Yemen Mark Wagner Part III: Diasporas Chapter 30: Argentina and Hispano-America Christina E. Civantos Chapter 31: Australia Nijmeh Hajjar Chapter 32: Brazil Wail S. Hassan Chapter 33: Britain Geoffrey P. Nash Chapter 34: Canada Michelle Hartman Chapter 35: Chile Heba El Attar Chapter 36: France Laura Reeck Chapter 37: Germany Yesemin Mohammad Chapter 38: Italy Jennifer Burns Chapter 39: Netherlands Henriette Louwerse Chapter 40: Spain Gonzalo Fernandez Parrilla & Laura Casielles Chapter 41: Sweden Corina Lacatus Chapter 42: United States Carol N. Fadda