Recasting American and Persian Literatures
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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.
Amirhossein Vafa is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Shiraz University. He obtained his doctorate in English (and Comparative) Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Amir specializes in the cross-cultural examination of American and Persian literatures, and has also written on representations of men and masculinities in contemporary Iranian fiction.
Autor: | Amirhossein Vafa |
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EAN: | 9783319404691 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 09.12.2016 |
Untertitel: | Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch |
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Schlagworte: | Herman Melville Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Moby Dick Persian Literature World Literature |
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