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A collection of studies on the Gothic in the Middle East and North Africa. This is the first collection to cover Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa, surveying each of the major Middle Eastern languages—Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish. In these languages and contexts, the Gothic helps express ongoing literary negotiations with modernity, leaving its distinctive mark on representations of globalization, postcolonialism, and nationalism. At the same time, Middle Eastern literary texts expand the boundaries of the mode on their own terms, refracting broad histories through local and indigenous forms, figures, and narratives commonly associated with the Gothic.

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Author:   Karen Grumberg
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786839282

ISBN 10:   1786839288
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration Introduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic - Karen Grumberg Part I. Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures 1. Maqāmāt: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror - Jacob Berman 2. The Iranian Gothic and its Parts - Michael Beard Part II. Spectralised Modernities 3. Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Novels of the 1920s - Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed 4. Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature - Roni Masel 5. Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel - Alexandra Shraytekh (Chreiteh) 6. The Call of Kimya: Re-Writing Sufi Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit’s The Dervish Gate - Adriana Raducanu Part III. Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised 7. Saharan Gothic: Desert Necrofiction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature - Brahim El Guabli 8. ‘Well-Founded Fear’: Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction - Federico Pozzoli

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'This valuable collection is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa. In scholarly, fascinating essays, this collection is attentive to the transnationality of the region, and the urgent necessity to recognise the ways that Gothic has always been shaped by global forces and influences. As a panelist wrote, this collection, 'Does genuinely valuable work in illuminating the development of modern Gothic beyond the familiar contexts of north America and western Europe.' Another panellist adds that the collection 'gently unsettles some of the assumptions other works, and our habitual critical frames, make about the Gothic. This collection will generate new work.'""-- ""Sara Wasson, Chair of the International Gothic Association's Book Prize committees"" ""This volume offers a brilliant and exciting intervention that embraces transnational regionalism as a challenge to the framework of globality and world literature. The various chapters draw together illuminating readings of key Gothic texts--in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish--with theories of genre and debates in Middle Eastern literatures. The critical attention to language and literary form cuts across the coordinates of north/south/east/west and provides a richly inspiring method of regional hauntology.""-- ""Michael Allan, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and Director of Middle East Studies, University of Oregon"" ""This is a fascinating volume and a pioneering endeavor in the field of Gothic studies. It decentres the Gothic from its Eurocentric context and anchors it in primordial times of Arab and Islamic literary history and culture. Middle Eastern Gothics penetrates whole new geographies and new languages to critically explore the literature produced at pivotal historical junctures of the modern Middle East.""-- ""Ikram Masmoudi, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, The University of Delaware""

""This volume offers a brilliant and exciting intervention that embraces transnational regionalism as a challenge to the framework of globality and world literature. The various chapters draw together illuminating readings of key Gothic texts--in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish--with theories of genre and debates in Middle Eastern literatures. The critical attention to language and literary form cuts across the coordinates of north/south/east/west and provides a richly inspiring method of regional hauntology.""-- ""Michael Allan, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and Director of Middle East Studies, University of Oregon"" ""This is a fascinating volume and a pioneering endeavor in the field of Gothic studies. It decentres the Gothic from its Eurocentric context and anchors it in primordial times of Arab and Islamic literary history and culture. Middle Eastern Gothics penetrates whole new geographies and new languages to critically explore the literature produced at pivotal historical junctures of the modern Middle East.""-- ""Ikram Masmoudi, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, The University of Delaware""

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This book is aimed at scholars in the fields of Gothic literature and Middle Eastern studies, as well as the educated general reader.

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