Trials of Arab Modernity
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Affect Theory
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Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Ahmed Alaidy
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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
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Tayeb Salih
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- ISBN 9780823251711
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Tarek El-Ariss is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin.
