Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations wit
This book is a comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature and their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nat
At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess ho
Enormous political and social changes brought about by modernization have naturally found expression in the literatures of the Near and Middle East. The contrib
This Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, it assembles