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1 online resource (xx, 340 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism.
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Middle Eastern literature. |
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Oriental literature -- History and criticism.
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Oriental literature. |
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Postcolonialism -- Middle East.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Middle East. |
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Orientalism -- Middle East.
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Orientalism. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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 |
ISBN |
9781474467063 electronic book |
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1474467067 electronic book |
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9781474467056 electronic book |
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9781474467032 hardback |
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1474467032 hardback |
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1474467059 electronic book |
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