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Book SynopsisAs one of the first non-European journals to critically address the category of Weltliteratur bilingually from the perspective of the Global South, this special issue of Alif addresses this problem theoretically and empirically. The critical conversation about the problem of the category of Weltliteratur is not only extended beyond the European and North American sphere that has largely dominated and framed the discussion of Weltliteratur, but is juxtaposed formally in a way that permits us to understand that there are other “world literatures” that allow us to reexamine the contending theories, practices, and underlying assumptions of Weltliteratur. Essays in this volume emphasize in different ways the inherent tension between postcolonial studies and “world criticism,” and to that extent open up new realms for the discovery of new knowledges, new epistemes, modes of conversation, and communication.
Table of ContentsHaifa Alfaisal World Reading Strategies: Border Reading Bandarshah
Brian Doherty The Center Cannot Hold: The Post-Things Fall Apart Literary Anthology
Hala Ghoneim Imagined Audience and the Reception of World Literature: Reading Brooklyn Heights and Chicago
Sabry Hafez World Literature After Orientalism: The Enduring Lure of the Occident
Gretchen Head Confronting the Right-Thinking Bourgeoisie: Shukri, Genet, and a Poetics of Inversion
Barbara Lekatsas La pensée de midi: Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Camus, Cavafy, and Chahine
Benjamin Ogden Quantum Criticism: A Poetics of Simultaneity for Global Literature
Joseph Slaughter World Literature as Property
Anouar El Younssi An Exoticized World Literature: Ben Jelloun at the Two Shores of the Mediterranean
Dia Al-azzawi Plastic Art Intertwined with World Literature: An Iraqi Testimony
Ziad Elmarsafy World Literature and the Worldliness of Literature
Erich Auerbach The Philology of Weltliteratur
Fayza Haikal The Contribution of Pharaonic Literature to World Culture
Maisa Al-Khawaja The Mythical and Questioning Existence in Darwish’s Jidariyya
Samia Mehrez Mapping the Novel: Franco Moretti and the Re-making of Literary History
Wen-chin Ouyang Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels
Mohammed Salama World Literature Between Center and Margin: A Reading of Postcolonial Arabic Literature
Esraa El Shammari World Visions on “Strange(r)ness”: Wadih Saadeh’s Poetry as an Example
