Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations

Schmitz, Markus

ISBN 10: 3837650480 / ISBN 13: 9783837650488

Published by Transcript Publishing, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837650480
• ISBN 13: 9783837650488
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.

About the Author

Markus Schmitz lehrt Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Münster. Seine Forschungsaktivitäten richten sich auf (anglophone) arabische Repräsentationen, relationale Diasporastudien, Theorien des cross-kulturellen Vergleichens, Fluchtmigration und Grenzregime sowie gegenarchivische Künste.