Abstract
ABSTRACT Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring (Rabīʿ al-shatāt, 2019) scrutinizes the critical effects of the Arab Spring on Arab youth, offering a multilayered portrayal of the present Middle East and its revolutionaries who have disappeared from both local and international discourse. In particular, the novel depicts the purposeful marginalization of Arab Spring revolutionaries in the diaspora—a considerable sector of the Arab community. This study places Diaspora Spring within the context of the contemporary post-Arab Spring novel, finding in the work a post-postcolonial vision of the revolutionary movement and the reign of counterrevolution. The novel censures what it depicts as obsolete postcolonial paradigms that fail to account for the persistence of neocolonialism. Second, this study draws on the theoretical framework of Homi Bhabha’s “third space” and “unhomeliness” in order to analyze the revolutionaries’ distinguished, yet liminal position during the Arab Spring and in the current counterrevolutionary era.
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