Middle Eastern gothics / edited by Karen Grumberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grumberg, Karen, editor.

Series:

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Middle Eastern literature--History and criticism.

Middle Eastern literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, [2022]

Summary:

This is the first collection of articles to analyse and theorise Gothic literature from the Middle East/North Africa region. It brings together nine chapters on diverse Gothic works in the major Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic

Part I: Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures

1. Maqāmāt: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror

2. The Iranian Gothic and its Parts

Part II: Spectralised Modernities

3. Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Gothic Novels of the 1920s

4. Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature

5. Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel

6. The Call of Kimya: Re-writing Sufi Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit's The Dervish Gate

Part III: Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised

7. Saharan Gothic: Desert Necrofiction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature

8. 'Well-founded fear': Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Grumberg, Karen Middle Eastern Gothics

ISBN:

9781786839299