Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Beskrivning

Empathy towards “other others” – whether racial, ethnolinguistic or socioeconomic, has long occupied an important place in literature of urbanisation, colonialism and capitalist expansion. However, scholarship on this phenomenon has largely been limited to cultural production in European languages of the global core. This book is the first study to consider empathy in the context of Middle Eastern literature, offering a comparative analysis of novels and short stories in Arabic and Hebrew from Palestine, Israel and the Arab Gulf. Following flows of emotion and capital across borders and languages, it explores how parallel literary phenomena in seemingly unrelated traditions nevertheless serve to illuminate interrelated paths of integration into global capitalism. With its Marxian, world-systems approach to affect, this work offers a new framework for understanding both literary empathy and the Modern Middle East.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399555210

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Rachel Green is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in key journals, including the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures and Comparative Literature. Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2027) is her first book.

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Note on Transliteration and TranslationAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Literary Empathy in the World-System: A Historical Materialist Framework1. Literary Empathy, Literary Enclosure Across the Middle Eastern World-System2. Empathy as Mediator of Class-based (Non-)Sight in Ghassan Kanafani’s Kuwaiti Map of Dreams3. Identification, Recognition, and the Palestinian City: Literary Empathy as Class Formation/Contestation in Post-Oslo Palestinian Writing4. Facing the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Hebrew Literary Imaginary5. The Trackless Desert Between Exuberance and Catastrophe in Bothayna Al-Essa’s Lost in Mecca and Abdulrahman Munif’s Cities of SaltPostscript: On Literary Empathy and Social TotalityWorks CitedIndex