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In the Shadow of World Literature - Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Paperback)
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In the Shadow of World Literature - Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Paperback)
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We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a
collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in
the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way
of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of
world literature, far from serving as the neutral meeting ground of
national literary traditions, levels differences between scripture,
poetry, and prose, and fashions textual forms into a particular
pedagogical, aesthetic, and ethical practice. In the Shadow of
World Literature examines the shift from Qur'anic schooling to
secular education in colonial Egypt and shows how an emergent
literary discipline transforms the act of reading itself. The
various chapters draw from debates in literary theory and
anthropology to consider sites of reception that complicate the
secular/religious divide--from the discovery of the Rosetta stone
and translations of the Qur'an to debates about Charles Darwin in
the modern Arabic novel. Through subtle analysis of competing
interpretative frames, Allan reveals the ethical capacities and
sensibilities literary reading requires, the conceptions of
textuality and critique it institutionalizes, and the forms of
subjectivity it authorizes. A brilliant and original exploration of
what it means to be literate in the modern world, this book is a
unique meditation on the reading practices that define the contours
of world literature.
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