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Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East
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.
£24.99
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East
The first collection of essays on this subject, this 'Edinburgh Companion' assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies.
£165.00