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This article examines two novels with reference to âtransmodern perspectives on literatureâ (Aliaga-Lavrijsen and Yebra-Pertusa 2019), focusing on a common denominator in their plots: the motif of two real, historical figures conversing with each other from beyond the grave. Rabisankar Balâs Bengali novel Dozakhnama (2010), translated into English as Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell (2012), is premised on a posthumous dialogue between Mirza Ghalib and Saadat Hasan Manto â two prominent figures in Urdu literature. Salman Rushdieâs Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) pivots around a posthumous debate between two medieval Arab philosophers, Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Al-Ghazali. I invoke Enrique Dusselâs concept of âtrans-modern pluriversalityâ to account for the juxtaposition, in these novels, of postmodern narrative devices with the premodern genres of the dastan and the qissa. I use the term post-Orientalism to designate the metafictional and anticolonial uses of Orientalist tropes in these works.
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This article examines two novels with reference to âtransmodern perspectives on literatureâ (Aliaga-Lavrijsen and Yebra-Pertusa 2019), focusing on a common denominator in their plots: the motif of two real, historical figures conversing with each other from beyond the grave. Rabisankar Balâs Bengali novel Dozakhnama (2010), translated into English as Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell (2012), is premised on a posthumous dialogue between Mirza Ghalib and Saadat Hasan Manto â two prominent figures in Urdu literature. Salman Rushdieâs Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) pivots around a posthumous debate between two medieval Arab philosophers, Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Al-Ghazali. I invoke Enrique Dusselâs concept of âtrans-modern pluriversalityâ to account for the juxtaposition, in these novels, of postmodern narrative devices with the premodern genres of the dastan and the qissa. I use the term post-Orientalism to designate the metafictional and anticolonial uses of Orientalist tropes in these works.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 215 | 215 | 15 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| PDF-Downloads | 22 | 22 | 3 |