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Creative Radicalism in the Middle East
Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings
Creative Radicalism in the Middle East
Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings
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In the face of vicious oppression and years of authoritarian and neoliberal ideology, how did the Arab Left assert itself during the Arab Uprisings? In this bold new account, Caroline Rooney outlines the importance of aesthetic strategies and creative expression in the left's critique of authoritarian and Islamic extremist discourse during the revolutions.
Using a wide array of texts and sources, both Arab and non-Arab, the book engages affect theory to show how a poetics of disappointment, despair and distrust, to dignity, solidarity and reconfigured senses of the sacred, offered a way for the left to reclaim ethical and progressive 'radical' values co-opted by political leaders and extremists in the Middle East. In so doing, the book offers an original conceptual framework for differentiating 'radicalization' from the creative radicalism of the Arab avant-garde.
Table of Contents
1. Politics as Theatre in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
2. Discourses of Authenticity and Poetic Good Faith: Algeria, Israel, and Syria
3. From Hegemonic Interpellations to Revolutionary Signs or Amara
4. Chronic Disappointment, Humiliation and Pariah Elitism in the Arab Novel
5. Cults of Pride and Cultures of Right-Wing Populism
6. The Poetics of Karama or Why the Egyptian Revolution was a Poem
7. Figuring the Sacred in Martyr Art
8. Equine Messianism in Palestinian Literature and Art
Conclusion: Adab and Iqtibas
Product details
| Published | Jul 09 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781838601522 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 4 b/w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Written Culture and Identity |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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