Trials of arab modernity: literary affects and the new political
Auteur :
El-Ariss, Tarek
Éditeur :
Fordham University Press
ISBN :
9780823251728
Date de publication :
15 avr. 2013
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward.