Trials of Arab Modernity

Trials of Arab Modernity
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780823251711
ISBN-13 : 0823251713
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Download or read book Trials of Arab Modernity written by Tarek El-Ariss and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward.


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