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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.

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

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 31/05/2022
    ISBN13: 9781474467049, 978-1474467049
    ISBN10: 1474467040

    Number of Pages: 360

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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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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