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Recasting American and Persian Literatures = Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch /

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Title/Author:	Recasting American and Persian Literatures/ by Amirhossein Vafa.
Reminder of title:	Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch /
Author:	Vafa, Amirhossein.
Description:	XV, 204 p. 1 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40469-1
ISBN:	9783319404691

Recasting American and Persian Literatures = Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch /
Vafa, Amirhossein.

Recasting American and Persian LiteraturesLocal Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch /[electronic resource] :by Amirhossein Vafa. - 1st ed. 2016. - XV, 204 p. 1 illus. in color.online resource. - Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. - Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World.

1 Introduction: Towards a Reading of Moby-Dick beyond Tehran -- 2 Call Me Fedallah: Reading a Proleptic Narrative -- 3 Call Him Javid: Limning a National Trope -- 4 Call Her Mergan: Worlding a “Defiant Subject” -- 5 Conclusion: A Melvillean Vision, Amiru’s Pledge to the World -- Notes -- Index.

Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. .

ISBN: 9783319404691

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-40469-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

835159
Comparative literature.

LC Class. No.: PN851-884

Dewey Class. No.: 809

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