@article{1480633,
      author = {El-Ariss, Tarek,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480633},
      title = {Trials of Arab Modernity : Literary Affects and the New  Political /},
      abstract = {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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252367},
      recid = {1480633},
      pages = {1 online resource (248 p.)},
}