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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Trials of Arab Modernity : Literary Affects and the New Political
- Ort / Verlag
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- [2013]
- Link zum Volltext
- Link zu anderen Inhalten
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- 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
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780823252367DOI: 10.1515/9780823252367Titel-ID: 990369177690206441
- Format
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Schlagworte
- Arabic literature / History and criticism / 20th century, Arabic literature / History and criticism / 21st century, Literature, Experimental / Arab countries / History and criticism, Modernism (Literature) / Arab countries, Affect Theory, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Ahmed Alaidy, Arab Spring, Arabic Literature, Hanan al-Shaykh, Nahda, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Tayeb Salih, Travel Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern