By pulling at different threads of the book’s argument, Elshakry and Quadri expose a basic tension between the book’s emphasis…
On continuity and rupture: A reply to Elshakry and Quadri
Egypt
Encountering another science
The Lighthouse and the Observatory’s learned account of nineteenth-century Egyptian astronomy’s imbrications with religion, empire, and the social realities and…
Rethinking the history of the astral sciences in modern Egypt with The Lighthouse and the Observatory
How the history of science can inform histories of the modern Middle East (and vice versa) is precisely what The…
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
The Arabic Freud ... does not aim to augment the literature on psychoanalysis by contributing yet another reading of Freud (merely…
The Arabic Freud: Discourse interruptus
The Arabic Freud masterfully excavates the neglected archives of psychoanalysis in mid-twentieth century Egypt, and offers a doubly contrapuntal account…
In the Shadow of World Literature—A reply
In what follows, I have hopes of acknowledging my debt to the various participants of the forum from whom I…
The contested worlds of world literature
Reading Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of World Literature, I thought of two competing ways to understand political impasses. On…
Future fanatics of world literature?
While this future world literature is hospitable—more broadly, to aspiring critics, and, in a more specialized sense, to literary scholars…
Worlding with the Rosetta Stone
Throughout his study, Allan's sensitive attention to forms and practices transports us to the constitutive limits of world literature. Questions…
The archaeology of a discipline and the discipline to come
Michael Allan’s groundbreaking new book In the Shadow of World Literature gives us one of the most moving and powerful…