{"product_id":"specters-of-world-literature-karim-mattar-9781474467032","title":"Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karim Mattar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474467032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474467032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Karim Mattar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942848266495,"sku":"9781474467032","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_51caf85c-c4a9-44c4-8384-b002e670f087.jpg?v=1681494705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/specters-of-world-literature-karim-mattar-9781474467032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}