Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel An Interdisciplinary Study [Hardcover]

Rita Sakris a Visiting Lecturer at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published on Middle-Eastern studies, migrant writings, post-conflict literatures, and James Joyce. She is co-editor of James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel (2011) and is co-editing The (1982) Siege of Beirut and the Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism (forthcoming).

AbbreviationsList of Illustrations1. Reading Monumental Space at the Crossroads of Disciplines2. broken pillars : Counter-Monumental Tactics in James Joyce's Ulysses3. Burning Temples and Falling Empires: Unraveling Arsonists' Dreams in Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion4. A History of Violence: Martyrs' Square and the Fractured Space of Memory in Rashid al-Daif's Dear Mr Kawabata5. Tabooed Spaces of Greatness and Shame: Monumentalization and the Representation of Terror and Trauma in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book and SnowPostscript Post-2011: Monumental Space and the Collapse of Arab Dictatorships Selected BibliographyIndex