{"product_id":"9780823252350","title":"Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130444529904,"sku":"9780823252350","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780823252350_p0.jpg?v=1763750455","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780823252350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}