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  1. Trials of Arab Modernity
    Literary Affects and the New Political
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823252367
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    Subjects: Affect Theory; Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq; Ahmed Alaidy; Arab Spring; Arabic Literature; Hanan al-Shaykh; Nahda; Rifa'a al-Tahtawi; Tayeb Salih; Travel Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern; Arabic literature; Arabic literature; Literature, Experimental; Modernism (Literature)
    Scope: 1 online resource (248 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

  2. Trials of Arab Modernity
    Literary Affects and the New Political
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    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 Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823252367
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Affect Theory; Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq; Ahmed Alaidy; Arab Spring; Arabic Literature; Hanan al-Shaykh; Nahda; Rifa'a al-Tahtawi; Tayeb Salih; Travel Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern; Arabic literature; Arabic literature; Literature, Experimental; Modernism (Literature)
    Scope: 1 online resource (248 pages)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)