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Author Mattar, Karim, 1980- author.

Title Specters of world literature : orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East / Karim Mattar.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 340 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-321) and index.
Contents Introduction: Towards a Spectral Theory of World Literature -- I The Worlding of "Literature" in the Middle East -- 1 The Shabah of Modernity: World-Systems, the Petro-Imperium, and the Indigenous Trace -- 2 A Genealogy of Adab in the Comparative Middle East -- II The Middle Eastern Novel and the Spectral Life-World of Modernity -- 3 The Revolution of Form: Naguib Mahfouz from the Suez Crisis to the Arab Spring -- 4 Islam and the Limits of Translation: Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Revival -- 5 Women in the Literary Marketplace: The Anglophone Iranian Novel and the Feminist Subject -- Conclusion: Futures of Spectrality.
Summary At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.
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Subject Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism.
Middle Eastern literature.
Oriental literature -- History and criticism.
Oriental literature.
Postcolonialism -- Middle East.
Postcolonialism.
Middle East.
Orientalism -- Middle East.
Orientalism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Mattar, Karim Specters of World Literature : Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2020 9781474467032
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