Middle Eastern Gothics by Karen Grumberg - 9781786839282

University of Wales Press

Middle Eastern GothicsLiterature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past\nAuthor(s): Karen Grumberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Wales Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Wales Press\nISBN-13: 9781786839282, 978-1786839282\nSynopsis\nMiddle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine chapters consider literary expressions of the Gothic in the major Middle Eastern languages Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish. Spanning the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Palestine, the book makes a case for the transnational region a cohesive geographic space encompassing diverse cultures, languages and histories that parallel, intersect or overlap as a crucial locus of Gothic Studies, alongside the nation, the globe or the hyper-local. Across the MENA region, the Gothic helps express ongoing literary negotiations with modernity, leaving its distinctive mark on re.