Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780748642731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Prologue: Presenting the Past: the Arabic Novel and Dialectics of Modernisation; Part I: Mapping the Nation; 1: Nation-State; 2: Nation-Without-State; Part II: Love; 3. Legitimacy of the Nation; 4. Impropriety of the State; Part III: Desire; 5. Decolonisation; 6. Modernisation; Afterword: Politics of the Past; Bibliography