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

• Superior document: Postcolonial Studies ; v.39
• Author: Schmitz, Markus.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Postcolonial Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. Setting in Motion: The Trans-Location of Anglophone Arab Cultures -- 1. Endings as Desert(ed) Starts -- 2. Beginnings as Cultural Novelties: Intertexts and Discursive Affinities -- 2.1 Pulling Apart or Pushing Together: Relations of Alterity and Critical Instrumentality -- 3. Khalid's Book and How Not to Bow Down Before Rihani -- 3.1 An Arab (Drago)man in New York and the Cultural Imaginary of Confrontation -- 3.2 Post-Gibran Before The Prophet: Khalid's Figurality and Performative Arabness -- 3.3 Transmigrations and Turnovers -- 3.4 Quixotic Entanglements and Disruptive Translations -- 3.4.1 Cervantes's Fictional Flight, the Moorish Unconscious, and Reversed Plagiarism -- 4. Nocturnal Traces and Voyaging Critique: From Shahrazad to Said -- 4.1 Lies, Counter-Lies, and Self-Made Lies -- 4.2 Edward Said in Anglophone Arab Works and in this Study -- 5. Reading Anglophone Arab Enunciations Across Genres: Narrative Display, Performative Evidence, and the Parafiction of Theory -- 5.1 The Horrors of Assimilation, Uncanny Transferences, and the End of the Roots-Talk -- 5.1.1 The Laughter and Slaughter of Subjection -- 5.1.2 Being Non-Arab and the Anxiety of Re-Filiation -- 5.2 Blurred Archives and Queered (Hi-)Stories: Literary Writing and Art Work in Transmigration -- 5.3 Palestinian Parkours-Matters of (F)Act: Occupation, Deterritorialization, and Cultural Resistance -- 6. The Challenge of Anglophone Arab Studies: For a Post-Integrationist Critical Practice -- Works Cited -- Image Credits.