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" Chronicles of Disappearance: The Novel of Investigation in the Arab World, 1975-1985 "
Emily Lucille Drumsta
Larkin, Margaret
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804406
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TL49236
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1873833185; 10191517
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Azmat, Tanveer
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Chronicles of Disappearance: The Novel of Investigation in the Arab World, 1975-1985\ Emily Lucille DrumstaLarkin, Margaret
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University of California, Berkeley
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Comparative Literature
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2016
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168
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Committee members: Britto, Karl; Kronfeld, Chana; Pandolfo, Stefania
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-55851-7
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This dissertation identifies investigation as an ironic narrative practice through which Arab authors from a range of national contexts interrogate certain forms of political language, contest the premises of historiography, and reconsider the figure of the author during periods of historical upheaval. Most critical accounts of twentieth-century Arabic narrative identify the late 1960s as a crucial turning point for modernist experimentation, pointing particularly to how the defeat of the Arab Forces in the 1967 June War generated a self-questioning “new sensibility” in Arabic fiction. Yet few have articulated how these intellectual, spiritual, and political transformations manifested themselves on the more concrete level of literary form. I argue that the investigative plot allows the authors I consider to distance themselves from the political and literary languages they depict as rife with “pulverized,” “meaningless,” “worn out,” or “featureless” words. Faced with the task of distilling meaning from losses both physical and metaphysical, occasioned by the traumas of war, exile, colonialism, and state violence, these authors use investigation to piece together new narrative forms from the debris of poetry, the tradition’s privileged mode of historical reckoning.
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Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Literary language; War; Political discourse; Poetry; Pointing; Narratives; Arabic language; Historiography; Novels; Colonialism; Fiction
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Language, literature and linguistics;1967 Naksah;Arabic novel;Francophone novel;Investigation;Maghreb;New sensibility
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Larkin, Margaret
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Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley
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