Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations

Schmitz, Markus

Fachbuch (Monographie) | Peer reviewed

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th 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, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.

Details zur Publikation

VerlagTranscript Verlag
ErscheinungsortBielefeld
Auflage1
Titel der ReihePostcolonial Studies
StatusVeröffentlicht
Veröffentlichungsjahr2020 (07.04.2020)
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
ISBN978-3-8376-5048-8
DOI10.14361/9783839450482
Link zum Volltexthttps://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5048-8/transgressive-truths-and-flattering-lies/
StichwörterAnglophone Arab Literatures and Arts; Cross-cultural (Mis-)Translation; Critical; Correlation; Strategic Lies; Culture; Islam; Literature; Cultural Studies; Postcolonialism; American Studies; Literary Studies; British Studies; Middle Eastern; Studies

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Schmitz, Markus
Professur für English Studies: New English Literatures and Media Studies (Prof. Stein)