Poetics of love in the Arabic novel : nation-state, modernity and tradition /
The Arabic novel has emerged as a major genre in the Arabic literary field since the second half of the twentieth century. Gaber Asfour, a major Egyptian intellectual and critic, has termed the turn of the twenty-first century 'the age of the novel' in Arab culture. This book tells the sto...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2012
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: presenting the past: the Arabic novel and the dialectics of modernisation
- Nation-state
- Nation-without-state
- Legitimacy of the nation
- Impropriety of the state
- Decolonisation
- Modernisation
- Afterword: the future is a foreign country.
