Specters of World Literature

Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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. It takes the Middle Eastern novel as both metonym and metaphor of a spectral world literature. It explores the worlding of novels from the Middle East in recent years, and, focusing on the pivotal sites of Middle Eastern modernity (Egypt, Turkey, Iran), argues that lost to their global production, circulation and reception is their constitution in the logic of spectrality. With the intention of redressing this imbalance, it critically restores their engagements with the others of Middle Eastern modernity and shows, through a new reading of the Middle Eastern novel, that world literature is always-already haunted by its others, the ghosts of modernity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474467049

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Mer om författaren

Karim Mattar is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a transdisciplinary humanist, and his research and teaching interests are focused around world literature, the history of the novel, the Middle East, the Israel / Palestine conflict, and critical theory. With Anna Ball, he is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

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[...] contains some brilliant insights and syntheses. It is thus essential reading for both world literature and Middle Eastern literature students.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction: Towards a Spectral Theory of World LiteraturePart I: The Worlding of "Literature" in the Middle East1. The Shabaḥ of Modernity: World-Systems, the Petro-Imperium, and the Indigenous Trace2. A Genealogy of Adab in the Comparative Middle EastPart II: The Middle Eastern Novel and the Spectral Life-World of Modernity3. The Revolution of Form: Naguib Mahfouz from the Suez Crisis to the Arab Spring4. Islam and the Limits of Translation: Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Revival5. Women in the Literary Marketplace: The Anglophone Iranian Novel and the Feminist SubjectConclusion: Futures of SpectralityBibliographyIndex