Tarek El-Ariss

Trials of Arab Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Literary Affects and the New Political

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernityGCowhich treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovationGCothis study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as RifaGCOa 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823252367
• Artikelnr.: 44781646

Autorenporträt

Tarek El-Ariss