Trials of Arab Modernity : Literary Affects and the New Political /
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 Ahm...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2013]
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Édition: | First edition. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.