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ID191811
Title ProperConfiguring the present for the future
Other Title Information personal narratives of the Arab spring
LanguageENG
AuthorYounas, Abida
Summary / Abstract (Note)My research highlights the complex relationship between narrative and temporality whilst exploring the narrative configuration of the Arab revolution. My paper situates the memoirs of Libyan novelist Hisham Matar’s The Return and Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo: My City, Our Revolution, and their first-hand experience of the revolution in Libya and Egypt within the genre of memory and writing. The stated work is investigated to emphasize how both writers configure the immediate, historical, social, and political dimensions of the revolution. By transcribing the time of revolution into narratives, both writers attempt to preserve a watershed moment of the Arab history and portray collective as well as individual memory. I argue that through their acts of witnessing/writing/remembering, not only do these writers historicize the present but also produce narrative memory by articulating collective utterances.
`In' analytical NoteBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 50, No.3; Jul 2023: p.785-798
Journal SourceBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol 50 No 3
Key WordsArab Spring ;  Personal Narratives


 
 
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