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Arabic Science Fiction (Studies in Global Science Fiction) by Ian Campbell, professeur d'arabe à l'Université de Georgia State) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages with a theoretical concept he terms “double estrangement” wherein these texts provide social or political criticism through estrangement and simultaneously critique their own societies’ inability or refusal to engage in the sort of modernization that would lead the Arab world back to leadership in science and technology. ** From the Back Cover This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages

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Author

Ian Campbell, professeur d'arabe à l'Université de Georgia State)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Cham

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319914336

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction