Peter Wien

Arab Nationalism (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab Nationalism and the contradictory meanings often attached to it. It presents nationalism as an experienceable set of identity markers - in stories, visual culture, narratives of memory and struggles with ideology. Using case studies, the book transcends a conventional history that reduces nationalism in the Arab lands to a pattern of political rise and decline. It suggests Arabs have constructed an identifiable shared national culture, and it critically dissects conceptions about Arab nationalism as an easily graspable secular and authoritarian ideology modelled on Western ideas and visions of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315412191
• Artikelnr.: 47903053

Autorenporträt

Peter Wien teaches at the University of Maryland in College Park and currently serves as President of The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A Critique of Arab Nationalism
2. The Trials and Tribulations of the Poet Fu'ad al-Khatib: A Biographical
Essay on the Origins of Arab Nationalism
3. Holding Up the Mirror: Imperialism and the Poetics of Cultural
Pan-Arabism
3.1. Saladin the Victor: National Saints, Great Men, and the Rise of the
Individual
3.2. From the Glory of Conquest to Paradise Lost: Al-Andalus in Arab
Historical Consciousness
4. Of Kings and Cavemen: Museums and Nationalist Museology in Twentieth
Century Egypt
5. Damascus Transfers: Dead Bodies and their Translocal Meanings
6. Nearly Victorious: The Art of Staging Arab Military Prowess
7. Arab Nationalism, Fascism and the Jews
8. Epilogue and Conclusion: Broken Narratives