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Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political

by Tarek El-Ariss
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780823251711
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
  • Publisher Imprint: Modern Language Initiative
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: USD 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Middle Eastern

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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