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Literary Optics - Maha AbdelMegeed

Literary Optics

Staging the Collective in the Nahda
Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-3828-5 (ISBN)
CHF 49,95 inkl. MwSt
Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors, AbdelMegeed addresses how and why they were drawn together to form a canon.
In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, including Hassan Husni al-Tuwayrani, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Ali Mubarak, Francis Marrash, and ‘Abdallah al-Nadim, AbdelMegeed addresses not where these works emanate from but rather how and why they were drawn together to form a canon. In doing so, she rejects the expectation that these texts, through the trope of encounter, hold the explanatory key to modern Arabic literature.

In this reformulation of Arabic literary history, AbdelMegeed argues that the canon is forged through an urgency to define a new form of political sovereignty and to make history visible. In doing so, she explores three pivotal concepts: the spectral (khayal), the trace (athar) and the collective (alnas). By examining the texts through these concepts, Literary Optics provides a remarkable intellectual history that delves into the aesthetic, philosophical, and political stakes of nineteenth-century Arabic literature.

Maha AbdelMegeed is assistant professor of modern Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut.

Introduction
Setting the Stage
1. The Literary Optic
2. Khayal: Literature as a Theater of History
3. Excavating Athar: History through Objects, Traces, and Stage Props
4. History’s Actors and the Collective Sovereignty of al-Nas
5. Literature as a Political Problem
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8156-3828-0 / 0815638280
ISBN-13 978-0-8156-3828-5 / 9780815638285
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