Middle Eastern Gothics

Karen Grumberg

Description

Middle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine chapters consider literary expressions of the Gothic in the major Middle Eastern languages – Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish. Spanning the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Palestine, the book makes a case for the transnational region – a cohesive geographic space encompassing diverse cultures, languages and histories that parallel, intersect or overlap – as a crucial locus of Gothic Studies, alongside the nation, the globe or the hyper-local. Across the MENA region, the Gothic helps express ongoing literary negotiations with modernity, leaving its distinctive mark on representations of globalisation, colonialism and nationalism. At the same time, Middle Eastern literary texts expand the boundaries of the mode on their own terms, refracting broad histories through local and indigenous forms, figures and narratives that we might associate with the Gothic.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic - Karen Grumberg
Part I. Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures
1. Maqāmāt: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror - Jacob Berman
2. The Iranian Gothic and its Parts - Michael Beard
Part II. Spectralised Modernities
3. Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Novels of the 1920s - Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed
4. Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature - Roni Masel
5. Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel - Alexandra Shraytekh (Chreiteh)
6. The Call of Kimya: Re-Writing Sufi Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit’s The Dervish Gate - Adriana Raducanu
Part III. Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised
7. Saharan Gothic: Desert Necrofiction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature - Brahim El Guabli
8. ‘Well-Founded Fear’: Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction - Federico Pozzoli

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Middle East
• Romance
• Gothic

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786839299
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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MIDDLE EASTERN GOTHICS

SERIES PREFACE Gothic Literary Studies is dedicated to publishing groundbreaking schol- arship on Gothic in literature and îlm. The Gothic, which has been subjected to a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, is a form which plays an important role in our understanding of literary, intel- lectual and cultural histories. The series seeks to promote challenging and innovative approaches to Gothic which question any aspect of the Gothic tradition or perceived critical orthodoxy. Volumes in the series explore how issues such as gender, religion, nation and sexuality have shaped our view of the Gothic tradition. Both academically rigorous and informed by the latest developments in critical theory, the series provides an important focus for scholarly developments in Gothic stud- ies, literary studies, cultural studies and critical theory. The series will be of interest to students of all levels and to scholars and teachers of the Gothic and literary and cultural histories.

SERIES EDITORS Andrew Smith, University of Sheeld Benjamin F. Fisher, University of Mississippi

EDITORIAL BOARD Kent Ljungquist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts Richard Fusco, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia David Punter, University of Bristol Chris Baldick, University of London Angela Wright, University of Sheeld Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

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Middle Eastern Gothics Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past

edited by

Karen Grumberg

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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration

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Introduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic Karen Grumberg

Part I Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures

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Maqāmāt: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror Jacob Berman

The Iranian Gothic and its Parts Michael Beard

Part II Spectralised Modernities

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Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Novels of the 1920s Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed

Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature Roni Masel

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Contents

Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel Alexandra Shraytekh (Chreiteh)

The Call of Kimya: Re-writing Suî Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit’s The Dervish Gate Adriana Raducanu

Part III Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised

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Saharan Gothic: Desert Necroîction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature Brahim El Guabli

‘Well-Founded Fear’: Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction Federico Pozzoli

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The idea for this volume was born of a conversation with Sarah Lewis, Head of Commissioning at the University of Wales Press, at the International Gothic Association conference at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, in the summer of 2019. From the start, Sarah’s sup- port and enthusiasm have sustained this project as it moved from idea to reality. I am grateful for her encouragement, and for the hospitable critical milieu aorded by Gothic studies for a volume like this one. I would like to thank Jamila Davey, whose sharp eye ensured consist- ency in the volume’s transliteration of Arabic terms, titles and names. Special thanks go to my exceptional research and editorial assistant, Maddie Lacy. Her perspicacity and composure have been integral throughout this process. I also would like to acknowledge the anonym- ous peer reviewers, scholars in the relevant literary traditions, whose feedback and evaluations of the chapters in this book were invaluable. For their wisdom, sound advice and help working through myriad chal- lenges, I am grateful to Adriana X. Jacobs at the University of Oxford and Michael Allan at the University of Oregon, as well as to my col- leagues in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin: Dena Afrasiabi, Hina Azam, Emily Drumsta, Avigail Noy, Jeanette Okur, Na’ama Pat-El, Esther Raizen, Babak Tabarraee and Levi Thompson. I am fortunate to work alongside scholars so committed to the languages, literatures and intellectual heritage of the Middle East.

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Figure 1. Title page of Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik’s poem ‘Mete midbar’ (‘Dead of the Desert’), by Ira Jan, in Bialik,Shirim (‘Poems’) (Krakow: Fisher, 1908).

Figure 2. Illustration accompanying Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik’s poem ‘Mete midbar’ (‘Dead of the Desert’), by Ira Jan, in Bialik,Shirim(‘Poems’) (Krakow: Fisher, 1908).

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