By Amirhossein Vafa

Reading literary and cinematic occasions among and past American and Persian literatures, this booklet questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the worldwide flow of texts as global Literature. past the bounds of nationwide literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of worldwide literary discourse, the minor personality Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the yankee literature canon to his Persian literary opposite numbers in modern Iranian fiction and movie, in particular, the agricultural lady Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In competition with Eurocentric remedies of worldwide literatures, and in attractiveness of efforts to recast the worldliness of yankee and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic homes are embedded of their neighborhood histories and formative geographies. 

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