Trials of Arab Modernity
Tarek El-Ariss
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 ... Read more
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-Muhsin al-Musawi Columbia University, author of Islam on the Street and The Postcolonial Arabic Novel "Trials of Arab Modernity offers a refreshing approach to the field of modern Arabic literature both in the scope of ... Read more