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<p>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 <i>Moby-Dick </i>(1851)<i> </i>is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature c

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Author

Amirhossein Vafa (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319404691

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25