The unmaking of the Arab intellectual : prophecy, exile and the nation / Zeina G. Halabi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halabi, Zeina G., author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Motion picture plays, Arabic--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays, Arabic.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 191 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Zeina G. Halabi examines the unmaking of the intellectual as prophetic figure, national icon, and exile in Arabic literature and film from the 1990s onwards. She comparatively explores how contemporary writers and film directors such as Rabee Jaber, Rawi Hage, Rashid al-Daif, Seba al-Herz and Elia Suleiman have displaced the archetype of the intellectual as it appears in writings by Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan and Mahmoud Darwish. In so doing, Halabi identifies and theorises alternative articulations of political commitment, displacement, and loss in the wake of unfulfilled prophecies of emancipation and national liberation. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual offers critical tools to understand the evolving relations between aesthetics and politics in the alleged post-political era of Arabic literature and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : in the beginning was the word

Requiem for the Enlightenment

Elegy for the intellectual

The banality of exile

Ruins of secular nationalism

The political remains.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.

ISBN:

9781474421393

1474421393

OCLC:

988185597