Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings
Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
Av Julia Wurr, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburgion.) Wurr, Julia (Junior Professor for Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for English and American Studies
1 769 kr
Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.Finns i fler format (1)
This book presents an analysis of English, French and German language fiction about the so-called Arab Spring. Through a transnational comparison of texts by a wide range of authors, both non-diasporic and diasporic, Julia Wurr investigates the commercialisation of Neo-Orientalist and securitised elements in short fiction and novels aimed at the Western literary market, and examines the role which the literary market plays in constructing, aestheticising and marketing mental boundaries between the Islamicate world and the West. By bringing together approaches from the social sciences with literary close readings, this study not only carves out recurring tropes, frames and figurations which are complicit in diffusing a Neo-Orientalist and anti-Muslim imagery into mainstream society, but also shows how influential frames of insecurity precarity, affective masculinity and terror refract the adverse psychosocial consequences of the neoliberal project into a securitisation of the Other.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2022-07-15
- Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
- Vikt544 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEdinburgh Studies of the Globalised Muslim World
- Antal sidor264
- FörlagEdinburgh University Press
- ISBN9781474488006