The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual : : Prophecy, Exile and the Nation / / Zeina Halabi.
Examines the depiction of intellectuals in contemporary Arabic literatureZeina G. Halabi examines the unmaking of the intellectual as prophetic figure, national icon, and exile in Arabic literature and film from the 1990s onwards. She comparatively explores how contemporary writers and film director...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: In the Beginning was the Word
- 1 Requiem for the Enlightenment
- 2 Elegy for the Intellectual
- 3 The Banality of Exile
- 4 Ruins of Secular Nationalism
- 5 The Political Remains
- Bibliography
- Index