Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

Paru le : 2016-12-09



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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. 

Pages
204 pages
Collection
Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Parution
2016-12-09
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319404684
EAN PDF
9783319404691

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9783319404691

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94,94 €