Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780748655694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Ms Wen-chin Ouyang

Opis

Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2014
Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage.

Spis treści

Foreword; Part I: Nostlagia; 1. The Invention of Tradition; 2. The Mysterious (Dis)Appearance of Tradition; Part II: Madness: In the Ruins of Dream and Memory; 3. Semiology of Madness; 4. Semiotics of Tyranny; Part III: Narrating the Nation: Time, History, Story; 5. History; 6. Story; Epilogue; Bibliography.