TY  - BOOK
AU  - AbdelMegeed,Maha
TI  - Literary optics: staging the collective in the nahda 
T2  - Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
SN  - 9780815638285
AV  - PJ7538 .A23 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Syracuse, NY
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - European literature
KW  - Influence
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -