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Melancholy acts : defeat and cultural critique in the Arab world / Nouri Gana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gana, Nouri, author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature.
- Oppression (Psychology) in literature.
- Motion pictures--Arab countries--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? 'Melancholy Acts' offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought, literature, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 13, 2023).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781531504182
- 1531504183
- 9781531503512
- 1531503519
- OCLC:
- 1415748019
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