Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Note on Transliterations xix
6. Introduction: Towards a Spectral Theory of World Literature 1
7. I THE WORLDING OF “LITERATURE” IN THE MIDDLE EAST
8. 1 The Shabah. of Modernity: World-Systems, the Petro-Imperium, and the Indigenous Trace 69
9. 2 A Genealogy of Adab in the Comparative Middle East 110
10. II THE MIDDLE EASTERN NOVEL AND THE SPECTRAL LIFE-WORLD OF MODERNITY
11. 3 The Revolution of Form: Naguib Mahfouz from the Suez Crisis to the Arab Spring 175
12. 4 Islam and the Limits of Translation: Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Revival 215
13. 5 Women in the Literary Marketplace: The Anglophone Iranian Novel and the Feminist Subject 260
14. Conclusion: Futures of Spectrality 300
15. Bibliography 308
16. Index 332