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This is the first collection of articles to analyse and theorise Gothic literature from the Middle East/North Africa region. It brings together nine chapters on diverse Gothic works in the major Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.

An anthology of sinister tales written since the early-20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S.Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveals a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture.

Karen Grumberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature.

John Brinckerhoff Jackson has theorised the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from the larger world of politics and law. The quotidian space is shaped by the everyday culture of its inhabitants. Karen Grumberg sets anchor in this and other contemporary theories of space and place, then embarks on subtle close readings of recent Israeli fiction that demonstrate how literature in pr...