Middle Eastern Gothics (Web PDF) von Karen Grumberg

This is the first collection of articles to analyse and theorise Gothic literature from the Middle East/North Africa region. It brings together nine chapters on diverse Gothic works in the major Middle Eastern languages – Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic - Karen GrumbergPart I. Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures1. Maqāmāt: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror - Jacob Berman2. The Iranian Gothic and its Parts - Michael BeardPart II. Spectralised Modernities3. Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Novels of the 1920s - Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed4. Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature - Roni Masel5. Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel - Alexandra Shraytekh (Chreiteh)6. The Call of Kimya: Re-Writing Sufi Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit’s The Dervish Gate - Adriana RaducanuPart III. Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised7. Saharan Gothic: Desert Necrofiction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature - Brahim El Guabli8. ‘Well-Founded Fear’: Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction - Federico Pozzoli