Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Amirhossein Vafa ISBN: 9783319404691
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: December 9, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Amirhossein Vafa
ISBN: 9783319404691
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: December 9, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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 bookmaintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. 

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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 bookmaintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. 

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