Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.

Autorentext
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is an assistant pofessor of World Literature at New Jersey City University. He has taught at Columbia University, The New School University, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Inhalt
Images of Chaos: An Introduction Tactic I: Desertion (chaotic movement) First Annihilation: Fall of Being, Burial of the Real Tactic II: Contagion (chaotic transmission) Second Annihilation: Betrayal, Fracture, and the Poetic Edge Tactic III: Shadow-Becoming (chaotic appearance) Chaos-Consciousness: Towards Blindness Tactic IV: The Inhuman (chaotic incantation) Epilogue: Corollaries of Emergence