Rita Sakr

Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Study

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, sothese discourses set a boundary between their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand, and various theoretical perspectives,history, and cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary texts that represent monumental space in a typical post-imperial geopolitical contexts, Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel brings into question many postcolonial paradigms.

Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history,and cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441105387
• Artikelnr.: 48423136

Autorenporträt

Rita Sakr, Member of the Editorial Board of the EURAMAL Conference Proceedings; Co-Chair Maynooth University Sanctuary; Commissioning Editor for Modern Arabic Literature section of Literary Encyclopedia; Founder of the Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; Author of 'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (2013).