Rita SakrMonumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel
An Interdisciplinary Study
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
1. Reading Monumental Space at the Crossroads of Disciplines
2. "broken pillars": Counter-Monumental Tactics in James Joyce's Ulysses
3. Burning Temples and Falling Empires: Unraveling Arsonists' Dreams in
Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
4. A History of Violence: Martyrs' Square and the Fractured Space of Memory
in Rashid al-Daif's Dear Mr Kawabata
5. Tabooed Spaces of Greatness and Shame: Monumentalization and the
Representation of Terror and Trauma in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book and
Snow
Postscript Post-2011: Monumental Space and the Collapse of Arab
Dictatorships
Selected Bibliography
Index