Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies

• Main Author: Schmitz, Markus (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: transcript Verlag 2020
• Series: Postcolonial Studies
• Subjects: Literary Studies; Cross-cultural (Mis-)Translation; Middle Eastern Studies; Literature; Strategic Lies; Postcolonialism; Anglophone Arab Literatures and Arts; British Studies; American Studies; Islam; Cultural Studies; Critical Correlation; Culture
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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 dissonan...