Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-century Arab Literat...

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" Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-century Arab Literature "
Levett, Anna Carson Cooke, Miriam

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1051975
Doc. No	:	TL51092
Main Entry	:	Levett, Anna Carson
Title & Author	:	Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-century Arab Literature\ Levett, Anna CarsonCooke, Miriam
College	:	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	196 p.
Abstract	:	Mediterranean Dream-Places considers the political, ethical and historiographic challenges that arise from the reception of surrealism in late twentieth-century Arab literature. This project explores the logic whereby Arab authors recast surrealist poetics in an Arabo-Islamic literary tradition, particularly in the lineage of Sufism. Looking to the Arabic writers Adūnīs and Idwār al-Kharrāṭ, as well as the Francophone authors Abdelwahab Meddeb and Habib Tengour, the dissertation situates surrealism in a trans-Mediterranean tradition, thus challenging not only traditional modernist geographies but, also, familiar modernist genealogies. Over the course of four chapters, Mediterranean Dream-Places demonstrates how the reclamation of surrealism in Arab literature becomes a political tool, both for writing the Arab world into the history of European modernism, and for imagining a decolonized future.
Descriptor	:	Comparative literature
	:	Middle Eastern literature
	:	Romance literature
Added Entry	:	Cooke, Miriam
Added Entry	:	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill