Investigating the Components of Universality in "Frankenstein in Baghdad" Using the Viewpoint of Hussam al-Khatib

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Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

3 . Ph.D. Student of, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran.Iran.

Abstract

In the study of contemporary comparative literature, world literature is recognized as a branch that examines the process of how literary texts are circulated. The term, first coined by Goethe in the early nineteenth century, emphasizes the circulation of literary works beyond the language and culture of origin. Followed by him, many scholars and thinkers challenged his concept addressing world literature and placed it in the realm of acceptance or rejection and doubt. Researchers such as Emily Upter, David Demrash, Pascal Casanova, Franco Morti, etc. Each of their own perspectives sought to draw its conceptual and material boundaries. Hussam Al-Khatib, a complier born in Palestinian, describes the components influencing the literary circulation and globalization of a work at three levels including in-text, linguistic, and external structure. This study intends to use the descriptive-analytical procedure and considering the universal components of the literary work from Al-Khatib's point of view to examine the literary circulation in "Frankenstein in ", a novel by Ahmad Saadawi, beyond the national borders of Iraq. The findings of this study present that the global success of "Frankenstein in Baghdad" is influenced by the socio-political situation in Iraq, the internal and external structure of the novel, the relative advantages of languages, etc.

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