Ways of seeking : the Arabic novel and the poetics of investigation / Emily Drumsta.
"In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a "poetics of investigation," the book shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Islamic Humanities ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : towards a poetics of investigation
- The detective as conscript : Tawfiq al-Hakim and Driss Chraïbi on the margins of the law
- Murder on the 'Izbah : spectral legality and Egyptian sensation fiction in Yusuf Idris and Yusuf al-Qa'id
- Bureau of missing persons : metaphysical detection and the subject in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Naguib Mahfouz
- Effacing the author, or the detective as medium : Fathi Ghanim and Elias Khoury
- Epic fails : Sonallah Ibrahim's modern myths of seeking
- Epilogue : monstrous omniscience.