Toward a New Literary History

The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies in the United States. In the early 1990s, the field was still almost exclusively a satellite of area studies and largely bound by Orientalist historical and epistemological paradigms. Graduate students—even those...

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Published in:	International journal of Middle East studies 2011-11, Vol.43 (4), p.734-736
Main Author:	Selim, Samah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Arab people Arabic language Arabic literature Area Studies Boundaries College students Comparative literature Critical theory Criticism Cultural instruction Deconstruction English language Epistemology Ethnographic studies Europe Foucauldian analysis French language German language Graduate students Historical text analysis History Islam Italy Languages Literary criticism Literary genres Literary history Literature Modern literature Narratives Nationalism Orientalism Paradigms Philology Philosophy Post structuralist linguistics Postcolonial literature Postcolonialism Poststructuralism Rapprochement Russian language Scholarship Spanish language Subaltern identities Textual criticism Theory and Arabic Literature in the United States Traditions Transformation World literature
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