Specters of world literature : orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East /

"This book draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida, and world-systems theory to address the institutionalized construct of 'world literature' from its origins in Goethe and Marx to the present day. It argues that through its history, this construct has served to incorporate...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mattar, Karim, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Middle Eastern fiction > History and criticism.
Orientalism in literature.
Oriental literature > History and criticism.
Littérature orientale > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Middle Eastern fiction.
Oriental literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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