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Tarek El-Ariss - Trials of Arab Modernity - 9780823251711 - V9780823251711
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Trials of Arab Modernity

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Description for Trials of Arab Modernity Hardback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823251711
SKU
V9780823251711
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About Tarek El-Ariss
Tarek El-Ariss is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews for Trials of Arab Modernity
"... a sharp and witty reading of great warmth and appeal that brings the reader close to its subject without surrendering to hasty generalizations."
-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

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