Introduction

This introduction addresses the relationship between the creative power of revolutionary people and the revolutionary power of writers in the Arab world. It outlines the ways in which this study explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that, in the last 15 years especially, unraveled the political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus ‘anticipating’ or envisioning and participating in some of the major current upheavals in their respective national contexts. Methodologically, it emphasizes the interdisciplinary intersections among the fields of literature, cultural geography, and human rights discourse. It also engages briefly with the Tunisian context through the example of Kamel al-Riahi’s novels.

Context (archaeology) · Injustice · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · North African History and Literature