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Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel : Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition / Wen-chin Ouyang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748642731
  • 9780748655052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892.73093543 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ7572.L68 O99 2012
  • PJ7572.L68 O99 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Prologue PRESENTING THE PAST: THE ARABIC NOVEL AND THE DIALECTICS OF MODERNISATION -- PART I Mapping the Nation: Place, Space, Text -- Chapter 1 NATION-STATE -- Chapter 2 NATION-WITHOUT-STATE -- PART II Love: Legitimacy of the Nation, Authenticity of the Novel -- Chapter 3 LEGITIMACY OF THE NATION -- Chapter 4 IMPROPRIETY OF THE STATE -- PART III Desire: Arab Experiences of Modernity -- Chapter 5 DECOLONISATION -- Chapter 6 MODERNISATION -- Afterword THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and traditionWen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.Authors studied include Naguib Mahfouz; Ghassan Kanafani; Ibrahim Nasrallah; Emil Habiby; Jamal al-Ghitani; Ali Mubarak, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Khalil Hawi and Salah 'Abd al-SaburWorks studied include Arabian Nights and MaqamatAddresses issues such as nation & nationalism, Arabic poetics of love, modernity & modernisation; the politics of desire, the poetics of space, women & cartography of nation, identity and intertexutality
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Prologue PRESENTING THE PAST: THE ARABIC NOVEL AND THE DIALECTICS OF MODERNISATION -- PART I Mapping the Nation: Place, Space, Text -- Chapter 1 NATION-STATE -- Chapter 2 NATION-WITHOUT-STATE -- PART II Love: Legitimacy of the Nation, Authenticity of the Novel -- Chapter 3 LEGITIMACY OF THE NATION -- Chapter 4 IMPROPRIETY OF THE STATE -- PART III Desire: Arab Experiences of Modernity -- Chapter 5 DECOLONISATION -- Chapter 6 MODERNISATION -- Afterword THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and traditionWen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.Authors studied include Naguib Mahfouz; Ghassan Kanafani; Ibrahim Nasrallah; Emil Habiby; Jamal al-Ghitani; Ali Mubarak, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Khalil Hawi and Salah 'Abd al-SaburWorks studied include Arabian Nights and MaqamatAddresses issues such as nation & nationalism, Arabic poetics of love, modernity & modernisation; the politics of desire, the poetics of space, women & cartography of nation, identity and intertexutality

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In English.

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