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Autore: |
El-Ariss Tarek
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Titolo: |
Trials of Arab modernity : literary affects and the new political / / Tarek El-Ariss
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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 | |
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 ![]() |
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.: | 9910817340403321 |
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