Trials of Arab Modernity : Literary Affects and the New Political / Tarek El-Ariss.
El-Ariss, Tarek, author.
2013
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Title Trials of Arab Modernity : Literary Affects and the New Political / Tarek El-Ariss.
Author El-Ariss, Tarek, author.
ISBN 9780823252367
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252367
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (248 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823252367 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.709006
Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
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

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