Trials of Arab Modernity(English, Hardcover, El-Ariss Tarek)

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Trials of Arab Modernity(English, Hardcover, El-Ariss Tarek) is written by El-Ariss Tarek and published by Fordham University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0823251713 (ISBN 10) and 9780823251711 (ISBN 13).

Challenging prevalent conceptualizations 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 al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, 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.