New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East: The Chaotic Imagination (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)

ISBN: 0230108121

Author: Mohaghegh, J.

Condition: New

In an inspired piece of criticism, Mohaghegh tracks the idea of chaos into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the so-called 'Third Worlds', exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature. Concentrating on writings of the twentieth-century Middle Eastern new wave--including the chaotic configurations of Sadeq Hedayat, Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, and Adonis--Mohaghegh uncovers provocative experiments with the outer boundaries of thought and text. What surfaces, in the end, is a rising language of blindness, desertion, annihilation, and illusion, one that has cast an enigmatic shadow across the future of world literature.