Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 35: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern ÒMiddle EasternÓ Literatures Met prayers and incantations

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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 35: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern ÒMiddle EasternÓ Literatures Met prayers and incantationsAmy MotlaghVernacular poetry and folktales, standardized Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, as well as literary works by Middle Easterners in different European languages offer a complex regional literary field. While comparative work among the classical traditions of these literatures is undertaken without comment, scholarship on their modern traditions is suspended between the exigencies of imperialism, nationalism, and academic parochialism. This issue