Specters of world literature: Orientalism, modernity, and the novel in the Middle East

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...

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Main Author: Mattar, Karim 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2020
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Summary: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
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 340 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474467063

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