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Specters of World Literature - Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East (Paperback)
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Specters of World Literature - Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East (Paperback)
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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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