Specters of world literature : Orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East / Karim Mattar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattar, Karim, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Eastern fiction--History and criticism.

Middle Eastern fiction.

Orientalism in literature.

Oriental literature--History and criticism.

Oriental literature.

Civilization, Modern--Middle Eastern influences.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8467-0

1-4744-6706-7

OCLC:

1312726028