Tunisian Literatures

Hanan Natour is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and author of Narratives of Liberation, Emancipation, and Decoloniality in Tunisian Arabic Fiction (1987-2017) (forthcoming).Mohamed-Salah Omri is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at University of Oxford, UK, where he is Fellow of St. John´s College. His publications include Nationalism, Islam and World Literature: Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas'adi (2006) and Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives (2022; co-editor).

• IntroductionMohamed-Salah Omri (University of Oxford, UK) and Hanan Natour (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)Part I: Multilingual Realities1. Literature and the Language Question in TunisiaMohamed-Salah Omri (University of Oxford, UK)2. Between Qawmiyya and Tarafud: The Vernacular Confluencies of Abu Gishsha (1908-1911) and al-Dardanil (1911)Ben Koerber (Rutgers University, USA)3. Lyrical Hybridity: Generic Crossroads in Adam Fathi’s PoetryHager Ben Driss (University of Tunis, Tunisia)4. The World Reads Tunisia: Literary Translation, Achievements and ChallengesNabil Cherni (University of Manouba, Tunisia)Part II: Genealogies and Trajectories5. Trends and Movements of the Tunisian Novel in ArabicHanan Natour (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)6. A Genealogy of Tunisian Women’s WritingsDouja Mamelouk (South Mediterranean University, Tunisia)7. The Tunisian Novel in French: Between Retrospective and New Literary PerspectivesSonia Zlitni-Fitouri (University of Tunis, Tunisia)8. The Political Allegory in Modern Tunisian Arabic PoetryFethi Nasri (University of Tunis, Tunisia)Part III: Memory, Trauma, Testimony9. Writing History in the Tunisian NovelWilliam Granara (Harvard University, USA)10. Memory and Trauma in Tunisian Theatre: 26 January 1978 in Ghassalat Enwader (1980) and Yahia Yaïch (2010)Lamia Benyoussef (Santa Clara University)11. Literature in French and the Tunisian Revolution: Corporeal Resistance in Azza Filali’s Les IntranquillesSiobhán Shilton (University of Bristol, UK)12. Explorations of Origins: Father Figures in Arabic and Francophone Post-Revolutionary Tunisian NovelsCharlotte Pardey (Independent Scholar, Germany)13. Testimonies of the Tunisian Uprising: Women Intellectuals, Space, Gender and IdeologyRania Said (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)Works CitedIndex

This volume is a landmark contribution that decisively fi lls a major gap in English-language scholarship on Tunisian literature, offering an unparalleled depth and coherence absent from existing studies. It stands as an essential and authoritative reference work, poised to redefine and advance research across North African, postcolonial, Francophone and Arabic literary studies.