Recasting American and Persian Literatures - Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)

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. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2016
Authors:	Amirhossein Vafa
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	204
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-82110-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	3-319-82110-5
Barcode:	9783319821108

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