I am introducing the kind reader to a sample selection of studies on the contemporary novel. Egyptian, Ghanaian, British, Portuguese, Sudanese, and Canadian, the novels, short stories, and film-adaptation of novels discussed range also from ones grappling with man’s plight in an ever traumatized and traumatizing world to national and international politics, ecocritical issues, critical, cinematic and translational concerns, the anxiety of resistance and coexistence, geocritical horizons, and third-culture parameters.  

Table of Contents

Dedication.

Preface.

Chapter One: Scatology in the Postcolonial Ghanaian and Egyptian Novel

Chapter Two: A Geocritical Reading of Some of Alice Munro’s Short Stories

Chapter Three: A Cixousian Reading of Alice Munro’s and Mohja Kahf’s Short Stories

Chapter Four: The Anxiety of Resistance and Coexistence in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator. Error! Bookmark not defined.

Chapter Five: A Reading of Jose Saramago’s Blindness in the Context of Ecocriticism

Chapter Six: The Problematics of Translating Literary Criticism

Chapter Seven: The Poetry of Science Writing: the Panacea of the Third Culture in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.

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