Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World - Hardcover
by Nouri Gana
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531503499ISBN-10:1531503497UPC:9781531503499Book Category:Literary Criticism, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Psychotherapy, Middle EastBook Topic:Psychoanalysis, Israel & PalestineSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SC00HNM63P
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
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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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531503499ISBN-10:1531503497UPC:9781531503499Book Category:Literary Criticism, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Psychotherapy, Middle EastBook Topic:Psychoanalysis, Israel & PalestineSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SC00HNM63P
Nouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (2011) and editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects (2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The Politics of Anglo Arab and...
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