Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The readings are also informed by, among others, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Abdelwahab Elmessiri, and Noam Chomsky. Deconstruction, or questioning oppositions, as the recurrent approach, pairs with contrapuntalism or counterpoint; epistemology or theory of knowledge; hermeneutics or interpretation; ecocriticism or literature and nature; geopolitics; cartography or map-drawing; demography or population;…mehr
Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The readings are also informed by, among others, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Abdelwahab Elmessiri, and Noam Chomsky. Deconstruction, or questioning oppositions, as the recurrent approach, pairs with contrapuntalism or counterpoint; epistemology or theory of knowledge; hermeneutics or interpretation; ecocriticism or literature and nature; geopolitics; cartography or map-drawing; demography or population; marginalization or minority studies; as well as normalizing discourse or stigmatizing difference or any deviation from 'set' standards.
Eman El-Meligi is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Damanhur University, Egypt. She holds a PhD and an MA from the Department of English, Alexandria University, Egypt. Among her books are Postmodernist Arab American Novel, Poetry, and Theory: Comparative Readings, Conversing with Egyptian and Chicana Literature (2015) and Edward Said's Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Deconstructive Readings of Canonical Literature (2014). She also wrote Postmodernist Metafiction (2013) and Symbolism in Tawfiq al-Hakim and VS Naipaul (2012).
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* Contents * Foreword by Nadya Chishty-Mujahid * Acknowledgements * Introduction * PART I: LITERATURE * Chapter 1 * Abysmal Re-Turn in Contemporary Middle Eastern and Native American Fiction: A Contrapuntal, Eco-critical Reading of David Grossman, Mourid Barghouti, and Louise Erdrich * Outline and Objective * Abysmal Re-Turn: Nature and Counterpoint * Grossman's Mountain and the Abject * Apocalyptic Abyss * Barghouti and Palestinian Dystopia * Contrapuntalism and the Gravity of History: Nature and the Other * Frontier Myth and Ideological Geography: Erdrich and the Inversion of Connotations * Chapter 2 * Jerusalem: A Reality and a Dream-A Comparative Reading of Amos Oz and Sahar Hamouda * Oz and a Different Jerusalem * Myth, the Other, and Fanaticism * Hamouda's Jerusalem: The Sacred and the Everyday Intertwined * Mother/Daughter: Story/History * Jerusalem: Old and New, Dream and Reality * Chapter 3 * Creating Frankenstein: A Foucauldian Reading of Normalizing Discourse and the Marginalized in the Contemporary Emirati and Italian Short Story * Foucault on Normalizing: A Pathological Discourse * Normalizing Discourse in Seif and Tamaro * PART II: THEORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY * Chapter 4 * Fateful Triangle, Hermeneutically Deconstructed: A Reading of Noam Chomsky and Abdelwahab Elmessiri * Deconstruction and Hermeneutics * Chomsky and Elmessiri: Generative Mind, Surface Structure, Deconstruction * Elmessiri: Philosophy, Ideology, and Literature * Elmessiri: Deconstruction and Postmodernism * Elmessiri: Deconstruction of Lexicon, Myths, and Media * Chomsky: Cognitive Linguistics and Universal Grammar * Deep Structure, Competence, and Generative Grammar * Chomsky: Deconstructing Lexicon, Myths, and Media * Deep and Surface Structure: The Case of the Greater Middle East * Chapter 5 * Rewriting History: When Historiography Authenticates the Other-A Reading of Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, and William Engdahl * metahistory: History as Narrative * Battle for Historiography: Power and Knowledge * Pappé: Rewriting al-Nakba History * The Post-Zionist Cultural Movement and Academia * The Threefold Reparations Paradigm * Finkelstein: Rewriting the Wars of 1967 and '73 * Revisiting the Peace Process * Cartography and Redrawing the Borders * Unsettling Myths, Lexicon, and Demography * History by Subtraction and the Holocaust Industry * Engdahl: 'Creative Chaos' and the Arab Spring * Weaponizing Religion, Technology, and Human Rights * Regime Change and the Greater Middle East * World Economic Hegemony: Control of Oil and Food * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
* Contents * Foreword by Nadya Chishty-Mujahid * Acknowledgements * Introduction * PART I: LITERATURE * Chapter 1 * Abysmal Re-Turn in Contemporary Middle Eastern and Native American Fiction: A Contrapuntal, Eco-critical Reading of David Grossman, Mourid Barghouti, and Louise Erdrich * Outline and Objective * Abysmal Re-Turn: Nature and Counterpoint * Grossman's Mountain and the Abject * Apocalyptic Abyss * Barghouti and Palestinian Dystopia * Contrapuntalism and the Gravity of History: Nature and the Other * Frontier Myth and Ideological Geography: Erdrich and the Inversion of Connotations * Chapter 2 * Jerusalem: A Reality and a Dream-A Comparative Reading of Amos Oz and Sahar Hamouda * Oz and a Different Jerusalem * Myth, the Other, and Fanaticism * Hamouda's Jerusalem: The Sacred and the Everyday Intertwined * Mother/Daughter: Story/History * Jerusalem: Old and New, Dream and Reality * Chapter 3 * Creating Frankenstein: A Foucauldian Reading of Normalizing Discourse and the Marginalized in the Contemporary Emirati and Italian Short Story * Foucault on Normalizing: A Pathological Discourse * Normalizing Discourse in Seif and Tamaro * PART II: THEORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY * Chapter 4 * Fateful Triangle, Hermeneutically Deconstructed: A Reading of Noam Chomsky and Abdelwahab Elmessiri * Deconstruction and Hermeneutics * Chomsky and Elmessiri: Generative Mind, Surface Structure, Deconstruction * Elmessiri: Philosophy, Ideology, and Literature * Elmessiri: Deconstruction and Postmodernism * Elmessiri: Deconstruction of Lexicon, Myths, and Media * Chomsky: Cognitive Linguistics and Universal Grammar * Deep Structure, Competence, and Generative Grammar * Chomsky: Deconstructing Lexicon, Myths, and Media * Deep and Surface Structure: The Case of the Greater Middle East * Chapter 5 * Rewriting History: When Historiography Authenticates the Other-A Reading of Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, and William Engdahl * metahistory: History as Narrative * Battle for Historiography: Power and Knowledge * Pappé: Rewriting al-Nakba History * The Post-Zionist Cultural Movement and Academia * The Threefold Reparations Paradigm * Finkelstein: Rewriting the Wars of 1967 and '73 * Revisiting the Peace Process * Cartography and Redrawing the Borders * Unsettling Myths, Lexicon, and Demography * History by Subtraction and the Holocaust Industry * Engdahl: 'Creative Chaos' and the Arab Spring * Weaponizing Religion, Technology, and Human Rights * Regime Change and the Greater Middle East * World Economic Hegemony: Control of Oil and Food * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
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