03146nam 22004935 450 991077459610332120240306123113.00-520-39020-210.1525/9780520390201(CKB)29577910000041(DE-B1597)672973(DE-B1597)9780520390201(EXLCZ)992957791000004120240306h20242024 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWays of Seeking The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation /Emily DrumstaBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024]©20241 online resource (240 p.)Islamic Humanities ;69780520390195 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations -- 1 The Detective as Conscript -- 2 Murder on the ʿIzbah -- 3 Bureau of Missing Persons -- 4 Effacing the Author, or the Detective as Medium -- 5 Epic Fails -- Epilogue: Monstrous Omniscience -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a "poetics of investigation," she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel's place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.Arabic fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismArabic poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismDetective and mystery stories, Arabic20th centuryInfluenceModernism (Literature)Arab countries20th centuryLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle EasternbisacshArabic fictionHistory and criticism.Arabic poetryHistory and criticism.Detective and mystery stories, ArabicInfluence.Modernism (Literature)LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.Drumsta Emily, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut0DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910774596103321Ways of Seeking3749480UNINA