Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market Explores the poetics and socio-political functions of Neo-Orientalism, anti-Muslim racism and securitisation in English, French and German language fiction about the Arab uprisingsIncludes close readings of works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jonas Lüscher, Adam Thirlwell, Jochen Beyse, Karim Alrawi and Mathias Énard, among othersProvides a methodology which helps to identify more subtle and latent forms of securitisatio