| Deconstructing Hegemony: Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography Contributor(s): El-Meligi, Eman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199408467 ISBN-13: 9780199408467 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern |
| LCCN: 2020373828 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.42" W x 8.61" (0.36 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The readings are also informed by, among others, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Abdelwahab Elmessiri, and Noam Chomsky. Deconstruction, or questioning oppositions, as the recurrent approach, pairs with contrapuntalism or counterpoint; epistemology or theory of knowledge; hermeneutics or interpretation; ecocriticism or literature and nature; geopolitics; cartography or map-drawing; demography or population; marginalization or minority studies; as well as normalizing discourse or stigmatizing difference or any deviation from 'set' standards. In Part I of this book, El-Meligi analyses case studies in deconstructive literature by comparing works of Eastern and Western authors such as David Grossman, Mourid Barghouti, and Louise Erdrich. Part II probes deconstructive theory, philosophy, historiography, and lexicon that pertain to the geopolitical term, the Middle East. Among the writers analysed are Chomsky, Pappé, and Finkelstein. |