Specters of world literature : orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East$dKarim Mattar
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations -- 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...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
2020
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| Schlagworte: | Middle Eastern fiction Orientalism in literature Civilization, Modern Middle Eastern literature Oriental literature Postcolonialism Orientalism Electronic books Mittlerer Osten Literatur |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (xx, 340 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xx, 340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781474467063 1474467067 9781474467056 1474467059 9781474467032 1474467032 |