Karim Mattar
Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East
Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East
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The book explores the worlding of novels from the Middle East in recent years, arguing that their constitution in the logic of spectrality is lost to their global production, circulation, and reception. It critically restores their engagements with the others of Middle Eastern modernity and shows that world literature is always-already haunted by its others, the ghosts of modernity.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The book's central thesis is a spectral theory of world literature that incorporates the ideas of Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida, and world-systems theory to examine how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalizing, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny. The book takes the Middle Eastern novel as both a metonym and a metaphor for a spectral world literature. It explores the worlding of novels from the Middle East in recent years, focusing on the pivotal sites of Middle Eastern modernity (Egypt, Turkey, Iran). The book argues that these novels' global production, circulation, and reception are lost to their constitution in the logic of spectrality. To address this imbalance, the book critically restores their engagements with the others of Middle Eastern modernity and demonstrates, through a new reading of the Middle Eastern novel, that world literature is always-already haunted by its others, the ghosts of modernity.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474467049
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