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Trials of Arab modernity [[electronic resource] ] : literary affects and the new political / / Tarek El-Ariss



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Autore: El-Ariss Tarek Visualizza persona
Titolo: Trials of Arab modernity [[electronic resource] ] : literary affects and the new political / / Tarek El-Ariss Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina: 892.7/09006
Soggetto topico: Arabic literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Arabic literature - 21st century - History and criticism
Literature, Experimental - Arab countries - History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) - Arab countries
Soggetto non controllato: Affect Theory
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Ahmed Alaidy
Arab Spring
Arabic Literature
Hanan al-Shaykh
Nahda
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
Tayeb Salih
Travel Literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Challenging 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Trials of Arab modernity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-5235-3
0-8232-5236-1
0-8232-5280-9
0-8232-5173-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788209903321
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