Creative Radicalism in the Middle East
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-83860-116-4 (ISBN)
Using a wide array of texts and sources, both Arab and non-Arab, the opening chapters of the book identify how ethical and radical values pertaining to sociality are co-opted by political leaders in the Middle East and turned into jargon. Later chapters outline resistance to this co-option through a poetics of inter-subjectivity that takes structures of feeling into account, ranging from disappointment, despair and distrust, to dignity, solidarity and reconfigured senses of the sacred. In showing how psychological and affective states relate to signifying practices, the book offers an original conceptual framework for differentiating ‘radicalization’ from the creative radicalism of the Arab avant-garde.
Caroline Rooney is Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Kent. From 2009-2016, she held Global Uncertainties Fellowships (AHRC/ESRC) with research programmes that explore the differences between radicalism and extremism through the arts and popular culture. Her work engages with contemporary arts activism both critically and creatively, ranging from scholarly research to theatre production, filmmaking and the curating of exhibitions.
1. Introduction: From Radical Distrust to the Arab Avant-Garde.
2. Politics as Theatre in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
3. Discourses of Authenticity and Poetic Good Faith: Algeria, Israel, and Syria.
4. From Hegemonic Interpellations to Revolutionary Signs, e.g. Egypt.
5. Chronic Disappointment and Humiliation in the Arab Novel.
6. Cults of Pride and the Cultural Expression of Right Wing Populism.
7. Karama or Why the Egyptian Revolution Was a Poem.
8. Figurations of the Sacred in Martyr Art and Equine Messianism.
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Written Culture and Identity |
Zusatzinfo | 4 b/w illustrations |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 517 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-83860-116-3 / 1838601163 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83860-116-4 / 9781838601164 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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