Arab Displacements

Rita Sakr is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures in the Department of English at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is the co-editor of two critical collections, co-director and coproducer of a documentary film on Beirut, and the author of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (Palgrave, 2013) and Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2011; Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). Her articles and book chapters on contemporary Arab(ic) and Kurdish literatures and forced displacement have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, as well as in several edited volumes published by Cambridge UP, Edinburgh UP, I. B. Tauris, Oxford UP, Routledge and Toronto UP, among others.

• Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Fugue out of shame: Ḥasan Balāsim’s re/membering fragment-shards from Iraq to the European forest/border2. From hostipitality to relationality: ‘Āṭif Abu Sayf’s more-than-human life narrative against techno-biopolitics in Gaza3. Dis-appearing lives: Basmah ‘Abd al-‘Azīz’s subversion of the documentary practices of authoritarian repression4. Besieged bodies; planetary imagination: Samar Yazbik’s political aesthetics of uncontainabilityAfterwor(l)d(s)BibliographyIndex