عنوان

Chronicles of Disappearance: The Novel of Investigation in the Arab World, 1975-1985

Number

TL49236

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Chronicles of Disappearance: The Novel of Investigation in the Arab World, 1975-1985

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Emily Lucille Drumsta

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Larkin, Margaret

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Berkeley

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

168

Text of Note

Committee members: Britto, Karl; Kronfeld, Chana; Pandolfo, Stefania

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-55851-7

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Comparative Literature

Body granting the degree

University of California, Berkeley

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

This dissertation identifies investigation as an ironic narrative practice through which Arab authors from a range of national contexts interrogate certain forms of political language, contest the premises of historiography, and reconsider the figure of the author during periods of historical upheaval. Most critical accounts of twentieth-century Arabic narrative identify the late 1960s as a crucial turning point for modernist experimentation, pointing particularly to how the defeat of the Arab Forces in the 1967 June War generated a self-questioning "new sensibility" in Arabic fiction. Yet few have articulated how these intellectual, spiritual, and political transformations manifested themselves on the more concrete level of literary form. I argue that the investigative plot allows the authors I consider to distance themselves from the political and literary languages they depict as rife with "pulverized," "meaningless," "worn out," or "featureless" words. Faced with the task of distilling meaning from losses both physical and metaphysical, occasioned by the traumas of war, exile, colonialism, and state violence, these authors use investigation to piece together new narrative forms from the debris of poetry, the tradition's privileged mode of historical reckoning.

Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Literary language; War; Political discourse; Poetry; Pointing; Narratives; Arabic language; Historiography; Novels; Colonialism; Fiction

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;1967 Naksah;Arabic novel;Francophone novel;Investigation;Maghreb;New sensibility

Azmat, Tanveer

Larkin, Margaret

Subdivision

Comparative Literature

University of California, Berkeley

Call Number

1873833185; 10191517

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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