Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East - Mattar, Karim (Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder) - Books - Edinburgh University Press - 9781474467049 - May 30, 2022
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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

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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.


360 pages

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Released May 30, 2022
ISBN13 9781474467049
Publishers Edinburgh University Press
Pages 360
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   508 g

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