| Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations Contributor(s): Schmitz, Markus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837650480 ISBN-13: 9783837650488 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early-twentieth-century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability advances to an essential quality of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, it shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. |