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"""Markus Schmitz offers a brilliant retheorization of both the poetic practices of Anglophone Arab cultural production and the potential future directions of critical practices of Anglophone Arab (literary and cultural) studies."" Christian David Zeitz, Anglistik, 32 (2021)"

A constant theme in Markus Schmitz's excellent book, Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations, is the idea of movement: setting in motion, transmigrations, flights, and turnovers. And indeed, the book itself sets in motion a mobile transnational conversation that shuttles between time-periods, between regions, between texts, and between maitre a penser. Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies masterfully combines fine-grained textual analysis with meta-theoretical concerns to better anatomize the paradoxical representation of Arab bodies and voices, at once hypervisible and silenced. The book's diasporic and interdisciplinary framework and impressive spatio-temporal scope goes hand in hand with a lively, insightful, and compelling examination of the cross-border interconnectedness of texts and cultural practices.--Ella Shohat, author of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices, New York University

»Markus Schmitz offers a brilliant retheorization of both the poetic practices of Anglophone Arab cultural production and the potential future directions of critical practices of Anglophone Arab (literary and cultural) studies.« Christian David Zeitz, Anglistik, 32 (2021)

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Markus Schmitz teaches Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Münster University, Germany. His research revolves around (Anglophone) Arab Representations, Relational Diasporic Studies, Theories of Cross-Cultural Comparison, Forced Migration and Border Regimes, and (Counter-)Archival Arts.

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