Zeina G. Halabi

Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual (eBook, ePUB)

Prophecy, Exile and the Nation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory in works by Rabee Jaber, Elia Suleiman, Rawi Hage, Rashid al-Daif, and Seba al-Herz. She argues that the ambivalence and disillusionment with the role of the intellectual in contemporary representations operate as a productive reclaiming of the 'political' in an allegedly apolitical context. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual offers the critical tools to understand the evolving relations between the intellectual and power, and the author and the text in the hitherto uncharted contemporary era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421416
• Artikelnr.: 50402505

Autorenporträt

Zeina G. Halabi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She specialises in contemporary literature, music and film with particular interest in questions of loss, dissidence and political commitment.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Stills
Note on Translations and Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word
Chapter 1. Requiem for the Enlightenment
Chapter 2. Elegy for the Intellectual
Chapter 3. The Banality of Exile
Chapter 4. Ruins of Secular Nationalism
Chapter 5. The Political Remains
Notes
Bibliography
Index