Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature

Name: Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional Literature
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Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)

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Cambridge University Press
05 March 2026

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism

Series: Cambridge Studies in World Literature

What makes Arabic literature, Arabic? Casting critical new light on area-based approaches, this comparative study tracks the diverse literary practices in Arabic and French that, during and after decolonization, writers on both sides of North Africa and the Middle East used to found a transregional literary system. Influenced by anti-colonial Arab nationalism, they mapped this literary system's imaginative and circulational scale according to the experience that they believed decolonial literature must represent and amplify: a shared political experience they called “Arab.” As it develops the first account of transregional scale between Morocco and Iraq, and between national and world literatures, this study shows that a major expression of twentieth-century Arabic literature produced itself as a set of print culture practices, literary themes, and interpretive norms in response to evolving ideas of Arab experience and emancipation.

By: Anne-Marie McManus (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 493g
ISBN: 9781009575294
ISBN 10: 1009575295
Series: Cambridge Studies in World Literature
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 05 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne-Marie McManus is a comparative literary scholar of Arabic, French, and English. Her research has been funded by the European Research Council, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and NYU Abu Dhabi. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.