Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch

AvAmirhossein Vafa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:403 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Antal sidor:204
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319404684

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Amirhossein Vafa is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Shiraz University. He obtained his doctorate in English (and Comparative) Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Amir specializes in the cross-cultural examination of American and Persian literatures, and has also written on representations of men and masculinities in contemporary Iranian fiction.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction: Towards a Reading of Moby-Dick beyond Tehran.- 2 Call Me Fedallah: Reading a Proleptic Narrative.- 3 Call Him Javid: Limning a National Trope.- 4 Call Her Mergan: Worlding a “Defiant Subject”.- 5 Conclusion: A Melvillean Vision, Amiru’s Pledge to the World.- Notes.- Index.