In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt

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We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature, far from serving as the neutral meeting ground of national literary

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"Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association"
"Allans incisive In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt mobilizes reading as a framework for interrogating the now ubiquitous field of world literature. . . . In the Shadow of World Literatures critical self-positioning of its own sites of reading (US academia, comparative literature, the Egyptian colonial archive), alongside consistent signposting for the books broader argument, are a refreshing departure from the stylistic tendencies of most first monographs."---Hoda El Shakry, Journal of Arabic Literature

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Michael Allan is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Oregon.