In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt - From Literary Artifacts to Reading Cultures

by Michael Allan When I first set out to write In the Shadow of World Literature, I had every intention of exploring the place of Arabic literary traditions in discussions of world literature. The generic formulation of something called world literature, I was tempted to argue, does little to confront the unique dynamics of Arabic literary traditions. I was lured by some of the classical tensions between the universal and the particular. On the one hand was Marx, who provided a frame for thin..