Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

ISBN-13: 9781138554184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 278 str.

Abir Hamdar; Lindsey Moore

Opis

Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world has been defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a range of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a range of contexts of production and reception, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, including fiction, autobiograph and feature films.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Symbolic Power, Representation and Reception  1. Islam in Arabic Literature: The Struggle for Symbolic Power  2. Managing Religion in the Name of National Community  3. Islamically Marked Bodies and Urban Space in Two Egyptian Films  4. Piety, Youth and Egyptian Cinema: Still Seeking Islamic Space  Part 2: Types, Tropes and Teleologies  5. ‘Those who cure you will kill you’: The Doctor and the Terrorist in Arab Fiction and Film  6. ‘Ostentatious Veils’ in the Moroccan Weeklies  7. ‘Drives in the Name of Freedom’: Desire and Death in North African Islamization Plots  8. Islamism, Capitalism and Mimetic Desire in the Terrorism Novel: Fantasy and Dream  Part 3: National, Regional and International Frames  9. Al-Manar and Hizbullah: Creative Instances in Propaganda Warfare  10. Video Games as Civilizational Configurations: US-Arab Encounters  11. Rap and Islamism in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Local Idiosyncrasies and Global Reverberations  12. Towards a New Language: Liberating Arab Artists from Islamist Discourses  13. Stateless Confederations: Revolutions of Islamic Consciousness in the Arab World

O autorze

Abir Hamdar is a Lecturer in Arabic at Durham University, UK

Lindsey Moore is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK