Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies
The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.
»A constant theme in Markus Schmitz's excellent book, Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations, is the idea of movement: ›setting in motion‹, ›transmigrations‹, ›flights‹ and ›turnovers‹. And indeed, the book itself sets in motion a mobile transnational conversation that shuttles between time-periods, between regions, between texts, and between maître à penser. Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies masterfully combines fine-grained textual analysis with meta-theoretical concerns to better anatomize the paradoxical representation of Arab bodies and voices, at once hypervisible and silenced. The book's diasporic and interdisciplinary framework and impressive spatio-temporal scope goes hand in hand with a lively, insightful, and compelling examination of the cross-border interconnectedness of texts and cultural practices.«
(Ella Shohat, author of »Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices«, New York University)
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
0. Setting in Motion: The Trans-Location of Anglophone Arab Cultures
Seiten 9 - 28 -
1. Endings as Desert(ed) Starts
Seiten 29 - 38 -
2. Beginnings as Cultural Novelties: Intertexts and Discursive Affinities
Seiten 39 - 48 -
3. Khalid's Book and How Not to Bow Down Before Rihani
Seiten 49 - 136 -
4. Nocturnal Traces and Voyaging Critique: From Shahrazad to Said
Seiten 137 - 186 -
5. Reading Anglophone Arab Enunciations Across Genres: Narrative Display, Performative Evidence, and the Parafiction of Theory
Seiten 187 - 256 -
6. The Challenge of Anglophone Arab Studies: For a Post-Integrationist Critical Practice
Seiten 257 - 268 -
Works Cited
Seiten 269 - 294 -
Image Credits
Seiten 295 - 296 -
Index
Seiten 297 - 300
7. April 2020, 300 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5048-8
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