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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East

By Karim Mattar
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By Karim Mattar
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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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