Politics of nostalgia in the Arabic novel : nation-state, modernity and tradition / Wen-chin Ouyang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ouyang, Wen-chin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nostalgia in literature, Arabic.

Arabic fiction--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that are 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 history, as a story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage.

Contents:

pt. I. Nostalgia : politics of the past

pt. II. Madness : in the ruins of dream and memory

pt. III. Narrating the nation : time, history, story.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-8429-8

0-7486-5570-0

1-299-10571-8

OCLC:

828793370