Cultural Encounters in the Arab World : On Media, the Modern and the Everyday

ISBN-13: 9781848853591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

Tarik Sabry

Opis

In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of modernness in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the modern in Arab thought with the modern in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today.

Spis treści

Table of Content: Chapter 1: On Encountering and Modernness Chapter 2: Contemporary Arab Thought and the Struggle for Authenticity Chapter 3: Arab Popular Cultures and Everyday Life Chapter 4: The Bridge and the Queue as Spaces of Encountering Chapter 5: Modernness as Multiple Narrative-Category: Encountering the West Chapter 6: Still Searching for the Arab Present Cultural Tense: Arab Cultural Studies Chapter 7: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index