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Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
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Abstract
This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonan... view more
This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.... view less
Keywords
culture; Islam; post-colonialism; cultural studies; literature; literature (discipline)
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Anglophone Arab Literatures and Arts; Cross-cultural (Mis-)Translation; Critical Correlation; Strategic Lies; American Studies; Literary Studies; British Studies; Middle Eastern Studies;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
300 p.
Series
Postcolonial Studies, 39
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450482
ISBN
978-3-8394-5048-2
Status
Published Version; reviewed