Politics Of Nostalgia In The Arabic Novel: Nation-state, Modernity And Tradition
by Wen-chin Ouyang /
2013 / English / PDF
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Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
2014
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.
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.
