Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Vafa, Amirhossein (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319821105 ISBN-13: 9783319821108 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Dewey: 809 |
Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.59 lbs) 204 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |