ID - 131564970 TI - Recasting American and Persian Literatures : Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch PY - 2016 SN - 9783319404691 3319404695 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature KW - American literature KW - Literature KW - Asian literature KW - postkolonialisme KW - literatuur KW - wereldliteratuur KW - Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud KW - Melville, Herman KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Comparative literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Literature. KW - Comparative Literature. KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature. KW - World Literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131564970 AB - Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. . ER -