Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Empty Spaces and Unveiled Placeholders
Locating Southern Iraq
2. This Other Eden
3. Jaykur Stretches Out to Meet Margate Sands
Reclaiming the Land Laid Waste
4. Odysseus Returns as Sindbad
The Quest for an Inner Landscape
5. This Boy's Life
6. Resisting Otherness
Colonialism and the Writing of Modern Arabic Literary History
7. 1948
Seeking Brave New Worlds
8. The Epic Turn
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index