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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

Mattar, Karim

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1474467032
ISBN13: 9781474467032
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jul 8 2020
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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