Melancholy acts : defeat and cultural critique in the Arab world / Nouri Gana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gana, Nouri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Arabic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2023]

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."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Melancholy Acts

1. Melancholy Formations: From Nakba to Naksa and Beyond

2. Melancholy Forms: Poetry in the Aftermath of Catastrophe

3. Enduring Left Melancholy: Recasting the Crisis of the Nasserite Intellectual

4. Melancholy Manhood: Modernity and Neopatriarchy in Tunisian Cinema

5. Melancholy Ends: Palestinian Film and Narrative Martyrdom

6. Melancholy Islam: Jihad, Jouissance, and Female Clairvoyance

Epilogue: Melancholy Critique

Acknowledgments

The Unsheltering Sky: A Note on the Cover Art

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Gana, Nouri Melancholy Acts

ISBN:

9781531503529

OCLC:

1380746164