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Recasting American and Persian Literatures
-Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch-Amirhossein Vafa
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Springer International Publishing |
Buchreihe | : | Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 20. 12. 2016 |
Seiten | : | 204 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 210 mm |
Breite | : | 148 mm |
Gewicht | : | 513 g |
ISBN | : | 9783319404684 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Autorinformation
Amirhossein Vafa is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Shiraz University. He obtained his doctorate in English (and Comparative) Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Amir specializes in the cross-cultural examination of American and Persian literatures, and has also written on representations of men and masculinities in contemporary Iranian fiction.   
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction: Towards a Reading of Moby-Dick beyond Tehran.- 2 Call Me Fedallah: Reading a Proleptic Narrative.- 3 Call Him Javid: Limning a National Trope.- 4 Call Her Mergan: Worlding a “Defiant Subject”.- 5 Conclusion: A Melvillean Vision, Amiru’s Pledge to the World.- Notes.- Index.