Literary optics : staging the collective in the nahda /
Maha AbdelMegeed.
- First edition.
- Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2024.
- pages cm
- Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Setting the Stage -- The Literary Optic -- Khayal : Literature as a Theater of History -- Excavating Athar : History through Objects, Traces, and Stage Props -- History's Actors and the Collective Sovereignty of al-Nas -- Literature as a Political Problem.
"This book proposes an alternative analysis of 19th century literary production as an arduous reckoning with modern political sovereignty. It argues that the canon of 19th century Arabic literature is forged through an urgency to see and define a new form of political sovereignty, and to adjudicate in light of that definition the best forms for its praxis"--
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Arabic literature--History and criticism.--19th century European literature--Influence.