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.
Sobre el autor
Tarek El-Ariss is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin.
Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 248 ● ISBN 9780823252350 ● Tamaño de archivo 2.6 MB ● Editorial Fordham University Press ● Ciudad New York ● País US ● Publicado 2013 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 4848208 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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