Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-First Century Horizons

Abstract

The rhetoric of death, birth, resurrection and haunting that has intensified around postcolonialism as an academic phenomenon is a sign of radical disciplinary transformation, one that has yet to overtake Arabic studies. Such transformation involves rethinking Arabic literary history and the theory of modernity to which it is wedded, a project that necessitates revamping the concept of comparison that Arabic and postcolonial studies have in common.