In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt

by Michael Allan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691167834
• ISBN13: 9780691167831
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"