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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: El-Ariss, Tarek (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]
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.