Kamran Rastegar
Biographic Data
| ID | 213330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamran Rastegar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamran |
| FAMILY NAME | Rastegar |
| SIGNATURE | RASTEGAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jurji Zaydan
This chapter provides an overview of the significance of Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914) as a figure of the Arab Nahda (“renaissance”) and more broadly as both theorist of and contributor to the position of Arabic literature within what is increasingly termed “world literature.” In particular, it is argued that Zaydan's riwayat (“historical novels”) are in need of a new scholarly assessment. A World Literature approach to Zaydan's literary work may well…
Leg Over Leg
The Unintended Gift
The value of literary translations such as Mīrzāabīb Ifahānī's translation of James Morier's The Adventures of Hajji Baba Ispahani must be understood as determined by the interrelated issues of inter-cultural power dynamics and the construction of literary value in the social contexts of both their origins and their destinations. Thus, we may consider this kind of inter-cultural literary relationship as a form of transaction, with texts and readi…
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Literary Modernity between Arabic and Persian Prose
Our understanding of nineteenth-century literary practice is often mediated by the national literature model of study that continues to govern discussions of modern literature. Put differently, contemporary evaluations of literary texts of the nineteenth century are often arrived at by using the national literature models that remain ascendant. This results in particular from the interplay of two concepts, ‘nationalism’ and ‘novelism’, and the ro…
Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives
A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these nove…
I the Divine
Journal Article I the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. Rabih Alameddine. New York: Norton, 2001. 308 pages. $13.95 paper. Get access I the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. Rabih Alameddine. New York: Norton, 2001. 308 pages. $13.95 paper. Kamran Rastegar Kamran Rastegar University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 259–262, https://doi.org/10.10…
The Changing Value of Alf Laylah Wa Laylah for Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian, and English Readerships
This article traces the social and cultural circumstances of nineteenth-century compilations and translations of Alf Laylah wa Laylah into English, Arabic, or Persian, in particular to gauge what cultural value these modern editions were thought to hold for their readerships. Through an examination of the critical discourse around the text, it can be shown how the text's cultural value was transformed through "transactions"—the translations and a…
Blurred Genres
Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives
A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these nove…
Blurred Genres
Blurred Genres
The Changing Value of Alf Laylah Wa Laylah for Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian, and English Readerships
This article traces the social and cultural circumstances of nineteenth-century compilations and translations of Alf Laylah wa Laylah into English, Arabic, or Persian, in particular to gauge what cultural value these modern editions were thought to hold for their readerships. Through an examination of the critical discourse around the text, it can be shown how the text's cultural value was transformed through "transactions"—the translations and a…
Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives
A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these nove…
I the Divine
Journal Article I the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. Rabih Alameddine. New York: Norton, 2001. 308 pages. $13.95 paper. Get access I the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. Rabih Alameddine. New York: Norton, 2001. 308 pages. $13.95 paper. Kamran Rastegar Kamran Rastegar University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 259–262, https://doi.org/10.10…
The Unintended Gift
The value of literary translations such as Mīrzāabīb Ifahānī's translation of James Morier's The Adventures of Hajji Baba Ispahani must be understood as determined by the interrelated issues of inter-cultural power dynamics and the construction of literary value in the social contexts of both their origins and their destinations. Thus, we may consider this kind of inter-cultural literary relationship as a form of transaction, with texts and readi…
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Literary Modernity between Arabic and Persian Prose
Our understanding of nineteenth-century literary practice is often mediated by the national literature model of study that continues to govern discussions of modern literature. Put differently, contemporary evaluations of literary texts of the nineteenth century are often arrived at by using the national literature models that remain ascendant. This results in particular from the interplay of two concepts, ‘nationalism’ and ‘novelism’, and the ro…
Leg Over Leg
Jurji Zaydan
This chapter provides an overview of the significance of Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914) as a figure of the Arab Nahda (“renaissance”) and more broadly as both theorist of and contributor to the position of Arabic literature within what is increasingly termed “world literature.” In particular, it is argued that Zaydan's riwayat (“historical novels”) are in need of a new scholarly assessment. A World Literature approach to Zaydan's literary work may well…
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