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The Politics of Arab Authenticity : Challenges to Postcolonial Thought /

By the beginning of the 1970s, the modernizing political and cultural movements that had dominated the postwar Arab world were collapsing. The postcolonial project they had fashioned, which sought to create a decolonized order and a new Arab man, had suffered a shattering defeat in the wake of the A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Agbaria, Ahmad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Voicing the Past
  • I FOUNDATIONS
  • 1 THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW FIELD
  • 2 THE GREAT CULTURAL WAR
  • II CURATORS
  • Introduction
  • 3 JABIRI AS A THINKER OF (INTERNAL) DECOLONIZATION
  • 4 RESTATING TURATH IN THE POSTCOLONIAL AGE
  • III BACKLASH
  • Introduction
  • 5 THE MAKING OF A SOCIAL CRITIC
  • 6 A CRACK IN THE EDIFICE OF THE SOCIAL CRITIC
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX