Ways of Seeking : : The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation / / Emily Drumsta.
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Drumsta, Emily, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ways of Seeking : The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation / Emily Drumsta. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024] ©2024 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Islamic Humanities ; 6 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a "poetics of investigation," she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel's place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations -- 1 The Detective as Conscript -- 2 Murder on the ʿIzbah -- 3 Bureau of Missing Persons -- 4 Effacing the Author, or the Detective as Medium -- 5 Epic Fails -- Epilogue: Monstrous Omniscience -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Arabic fiction 20th century History and criticism. Arabic poetry 20th century History and criticism. Detective and mystery stories, Arabic 20th century Influence. Modernism (Literature) Arab countries 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. bisacsh 9780520390195 |
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