LEADER 03146nam 22004935 450 001 9910774596103321 005 20240306123113.0 010 $a0-520-39020-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520390201 035 $a(CKB)29577910000041 035 $a(DE-B1597)672973 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520390201 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929577910000041 100 $a20240306h20242024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWays of Seeking $eThe Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation /$fEmily Drumsta 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2024] 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aIslamic Humanities ;$v6 311 08$a9780520390195 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tNotes on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations -- $t1 The Detective as Conscript -- $t2 Murder on the ?Izbah -- $t3 Bureau of Missing Persons -- $t4 Effacing the Author, or the Detective as Medium -- $t5 Epic Fails -- $tEpilogue: Monstrous Omniscience -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA 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. 606 $aArabic fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArabic poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, Arabic$y20th century$xInfluence 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zArab countries$y20th century 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern$2bisacsh 615 0$aArabic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, Arabic$xInfluence. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. 700 $aDrumsta$b Emily, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774596103321 996 $aWays of Seeking$93749480 997 $aUNINA