Amirhossein Vafa

(Author)

Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch (2016)Hardcover - 2016, 20 December 2016

Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch (2016)
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Part of Series
Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Print Length
204 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
20 Dec 2016
ISBN-10
3319404687
ISBN-13
9783319404684

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.

Product Details

Author:
Amirhossein Vafa
Book Edition:
2016
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
20 December 2016
Dimensions:
21.34 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm
Genre:
19th Century
ISBN-10:
3319404687
ISBN-13:
9783319404684
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
204
Weight:
544.31 gm

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