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In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
Michael Allan
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Description for In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
Hardback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving as the neutral meeting ground of national literary traditions, levels differences between scripture, poetry, and prose, and fashions textual forms into a particular pedagogical, aesthetic, and ethical practice. In the Shadow of World Literature examines the shift from Qur'anic schooling to secular education in colonial Egypt and shows how an emergent literary discipline transforms the act ... Read more
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving as the neutral meeting ground of national literary traditions, levels differences between scripture, poetry, and prose, and fashions textual forms into a particular pedagogical, aesthetic, and ethical practice. In the Shadow of World Literature examines the shift from Qur'anic schooling to secular education in colonial Egypt and shows how an emergent literary discipline transforms the act ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Translation/Transnation
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167824
SKU
V9780691167824
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About Michael Allan
Michael Allan is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Oregon.
Reviews for In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
"Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" "Allan’s incisive In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt mobilizes reading as a framework for interrogating the now ubiquitous field of world literature. . . . In the Shadow of World Literature’s critical self-positioning of its own sites of reading (US academia, ... Read more