Ahmad Agbaria

The Politics of Arab Authenticity

Challenges to Postcolonial Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Ahmad Agbaria tells the story of a generation of postcolonial thinkers and activists who came to question their modernist commitments. He analyzes the heated cultural and intellectual debates that overtook the Arab world in the 1970s, uncovering why major figures turned to tradition in search of solutions to postcolonial predicaments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780231204958
• ISBN-10: 0231204957
• Artikelnr.: 63658837

Autorenporträt

Ahmad Agbaria

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Voicing the Past
I: Foundations
1. The Emergence of a New Field
2. The Great Cultural War: The Social and Connected Critics
II: Curators
3. Jabiri as a Thinker of (Internal) Decolonization
4. Restating Turath in the Postcolonial Age
III: Backlash
5. The Making of a Social Critic: Jurj Tarabishi
6. A Crack in the Edifice of the Social Critic: From Thawra to Nahda
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index