03835nam 2200889Ia 450 991078820990332120220204052634.00-8232-5235-30-8232-5236-10-8232-5280-90-8232-5173-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(MiAaPQ)EBC4704618(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 countriesAffect Theory.Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq.Ahmed Alaidy.Arab Spring.Arabic Literature.Hanan al-Shaykh.Nahda.Rifa'a al-Tahtawi.Tayeb Salih.Travel Literature.Arabic literatureHistory and criticism.Arabic literatureHistory and criticism.Literature, ExperimentalHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)892.7/09006El-Ariss Tarek1520784MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788209903321Trials of Arab modernity3759557UNINA