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  1. Politics of nostalgia in the Arabic novel
    nation-state, modernity and tradition
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and... more

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    The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748655700; 0748655700; 9780748655724; 0748655727; 9780748655717; 0748655719
    Subjects: Arabic fiction; Arabic fiction; Nostalgia in literature; Nostalgia in literature; Arabic fiction; Arabic fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM ; African; RELIGION ; Islam ; General; Arabic fiction; Nostalgia in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (246 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

  2. Politics of nostalgia in the Arabic novel
    nation-state, modernity and tradition
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748655700; 0748655700; 9780748655724; 0748655727; 9780748655717; 0748655719; 9780748655694; 0748655697
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African; RELIGION / Islam / General; Arabic fiction; Nostalgia in literature; Arabic fiction; Arabic fiction; Nostalgia in literature; Novelle; Nostalgie; Arabisch
    Scope: 246 pages
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Part I. Nostalgia : politics of the past. 'The invention of tradition' -- The mysterious (dis)appearance of tradition -- Part II. Madness : in the ruins of dream and memory. Semiology of madness -- Semiotics of tyranny -- Part III. Narrating the nation : time, history, story. History -- Story -- Epilogue : post-national impulses

    The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage