New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East

The Chaotic Imagination
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10812-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohaghegh, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Images of Chaos: An Introduction * Tactic I: Desertion (chaotic movement) * First Annihilation: Fall of Being, Burial of the Real * Tactic II: Contagion (chaotic transmission) * Second Annihilation: Betrayal, Fracture, and the Poetic Edge * Tactic III: Shadow-Becoming (chaotic appearance) *  Chaos-Consciousness: Towards Blindness * Tactic IV: The Inhuman (chaotic incantation) * Epilogue: Corollaries of Emergence

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is an assistant pofessor of World Literature at New Jersey City University. He has taught at Columbia University, The New School University, and Sarah Lawrence College.