TY  - BOOK
AU  - El-Ariss,Tarek
TI  - Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political 
SN  - 9780823251711
U1  - 892.709006 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Literature, Experimental
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Affect Theory
KW  - Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
KW  - Ahmed Alaidy
KW  - Arab Spring
KW  - Arabic Literature
KW  - Hanan al-Shaykh
KW  - Nahda
KW  - Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
KW  - Tayeb Salih
KW  - Travel Literature
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Translation and Transliteration --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Fantasy of the Imam --; 3. Aversion to Civilization --; 4. Staging the Colonial Encounter --; 5. Majnun Strikes Back --; 6. Hacking the Modern --; 7. Conclusion --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252367?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252367
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823252367/original
ER  -