03514nam 2200769Ia 450 991046328580332120211008024411.00-8232-5235-30-8232-5236-10-8232-5280-90-8232-5173-X10.1515/9780823252367(CKB)3170000000060609(EBL)3239794(SSID)ssj0000836266(PQKBManifestationID)11457667(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836266(PQKBWorkID)11007715(PQKB)11104870(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292598(MiAaPQ)EBC3239794(OCoLC)847623349(MdBmJHUP)muse22198(DE-B1597)554963(DE-B1597)9780823252367(MiAaPQ)EBC1132257(Au-PeEL)EBL3239794(CaPaEBR)ebr10667443(OCoLC)923763903(Au-PeEL)EBL1132257(CaPaEBR)ebr11198325(OCoLC)915134858(EXLCZ)99317000000006060920130206d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTrials of Arab modernity[electronic resource] literary affects and the new political /Tarek El-Ariss1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20131 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-5172-1 0-8232-5171-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Note on Translation and Transliteration --1. Introduction --2. Fantasy of the Imam --3. Aversion to Civilization --4. Staging the Colonial Encounter --5. Majnun Strikes Back --6. Hacking the Modern --7. Conclusion --Notes --Glossary --Bibliography --IndexChallenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.Arabic literature20th centuryHistory and criticismArabic literature21st centuryHistory and criticismLiterature, ExperimentalArab countriesHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)Arab countriesElectronic books.Arabic literatureHistory and criticism.Arabic literatureHistory and criticism.Literature, ExperimentalHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)892.7/09006El-Ariss Tarek1034170MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463285803321Trials of Arab modernity2453132UNINA