M J Ernst

Datos Biográficos

ID53365
NOMBREM J Ernst
NOMBRESM J
APELLIDOErnst
FIRMAERNST M J
AFILIACIONESComparative Literature, New York University, New York, NY, USA
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS3
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR3
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Road to Lotus

    M J Ernst, Rossen DjagalovARTICLEInterventions2023

    Over the last decade, a hitherto forgotten literary magazine, Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings (1968–1991), has become an object of ever-greater scholarly attention. Indeed, whether seen as an instantiation of the Third World project in literature, a pre-history of postcolonial studies, or a distinct vision for world literature, Lotus offers a fresh perspective on many old questions. Before the magazine could be launched, however, many practical questi…

  • Global 1968 in Egypt

    M J ErnstARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2022

    This article reads Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s novel Farag as an afterlife of the global anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist political culture of 1968. I argue that Farag entangles post-1968 Egypt and France from a position of decentered interlocality, which places the histories of Egypt’s 1970s student movement and France’s Third-World-Marxist left in critical dialogue. At a time when the Egyptian left was paralyzed by state co-optation, the political awakenin…

  • Orphanhood and allegoresis in Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s Granada Trilogy

    M J Ernst, Michael ErnstARTICLEMiddle Eastern Literatures2021

    Challenging Fredric Jameson’s vision of Third-World literature as national allegory in the shadow of globalization, this article reads Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s 1990s Thulāthiyyat Gharnāṭah (Granada Trilogy) as a late capitalist allegory of the global South. In the Trilogy, ʿĀshūr places the plight of Castilian Granada’s occupied Arab-Muslim population in dialogue with the experiences of enslaved Andalusians and Native American victims of settler colonial v…