Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies : : The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations.
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Superior document: | Postcolonial Studies ; v.39 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020. Ã2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Postcolonial Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
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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.