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Title: Trials of Arab Modernity
Author : Tarek El-Ariss
Release Date : January 15, 2013
Genre: Historical,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 7608 KB

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Challenging prevalent conceptualisations 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 alshidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan alshaykh, 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.