| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : debating modernity -- Fantasy of the imam -- Aversion to civilization -- Staging the colonial encounter -- Majnun strikes back -- Hacking the modern -- Conclusion : writing the new political. |
| Summary |
Challenging prevalent conceptualisations of modernity, 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 on-going confrontation with and within modernity. The author bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Arabic literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Literature, Experimental -- Arab countries -- History and criticism.
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Arab countries. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Arab countries.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Literature, Experimental. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: El-Ariss, Tarek. Trials of Arab modernity. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012050166 |
| ISBN |
9780823251735 (electronic book) |
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082325173X (electronic book) |
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0823251713 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823251711 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0823251721 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823251728 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823252367 |
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0823252361 |
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9780823251711 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780823251728 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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