In the Shadow of World Literature
Book • 2016
Michael Allan's In the Shadow of World Literature investigates the circulation and reception of literary texts in colonial Egypt, focusing on the spatial and institutional sites where reading occurred.
The book explores how transnational literary networks and colonial infrastructures shaped modes of reading and the production of literary value.
Allan combines archival research with comparative literary analysis to trace encounters between francophone, anglophone, and Arabic literary cultures.
He argues that these encounters produced distinctive reading practices that complicate singular narratives of world literature.
The work won the MLA First Book Prize and established Allan's interest in globalization and aesthetic form.
The book explores how transnational literary networks and colonial infrastructures shaped modes of reading and the production of literary value.
Allan combines archival research with comparative literary analysis to trace encounters between francophone, anglophone, and Arabic literary cultures.
He argues that these encounters produced distinctive reading practices that complicate singular narratives of world literature.
The work won the MLA First Book Prize and established Allan's interest in globalization and aesthetic form.
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