Islamic Humanities
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Islamic Humanities

The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation

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Islamic Humanities

The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a "poetics of investigation, " she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel's place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520390201
Edition
1
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Literatura de Oriente Medio

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations
  8. Introduction: Toward a Poetics of Investigation
  9. 1. The Detective as Conscript: Tawfiq al-Hakim and Driss ChraĂŻbi on the Margins of the Law
  10. 2. Murder on the ĘżIzbah: Spectral Legality and Egyptian Sensation Fiction, Yusuf Idris to Yusuf al-QaĘżid
  11. 3. Bureau of Missing Persons: Metaphysical Detection and the Subject in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Naguib Mahfouz
  12. 4. Effacing the Author, or the Detective as Medium: Fathi Ghanim and Elias Khoury
  13. 5. Epic Fails: Sonallah Ibrahim’s Modern Myths of Seeking
  14. Epilogue: Monstrous Omniscience
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography