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Nouri Gana Melancholy Acts (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Melancholy Acts
- Title
- Melancholy Acts
- Subtitle
- Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
- ISBN-10
- 1531503500
- EAN
- 9781531503505
- ISBN
- 9781531503505
- Release Date
- 08/01/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Subject Area
- Psychology, Literary Criticism, History
- Publication Name
- Melancholy Acts : Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Subject
- Movements / Psychoanalysis, Middle Eastern, Middle East / Israel & Palestine
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 332 Pages
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How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought, literature, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. Melancholy Acts offers a psychoaffective theory of cultural production that arises out of the disjunction between political impoverishment and cultural resistance to colonial and neoliberal oppression. Such a theory allows the author to trace the melancholy disposition of Arabic literary and filmic productions and to discern the precarious rhetorical modes of their critical intervention in a culture that is continually strained to its breaking point. Across six chapters, Melancholy Acts reads with rigor and sensitivity contentious topics of Arab contemporaneity such as secular modernity and manhood, Arab nationalism and leftism, literary and artistic iltizam , or commitment, Islamism, and martyrdom. The book tracks the melancholy politics that inform the literary and cultural projects of a multitude of Arab novelists (Ghassan Kanafani and Naguib Mahfouz); poets and playwrights (Mahmoud Darwish, Nizar Qabbani, and Saadallah Wannous); filmmakers (Nouri Bouzid, Moufida Tlatli, Youssef Chahine, and Hany Abu Assad); alongside the work of such intellectuals as Hussein Muruwwa, Malek Bennabi, Karima Lazali, George Tarabishi, and Fethi Benslama, from within the Arab world, as well as such non-Arab thinkers as Freud, Lacan, Adorno, Fanon, Spivak, Butler, and Zizek. Melancholy Acts charts a fresh and bold new approach to Arabic and comparative literature that combines in interlaced simultaneity a high sensitivity to local idioms, as they swerve between symptom and critique, with nuanced knowledge of the geopolitics of theory and psychoanalysis.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
1531503500
ISBN-13
9781531503505
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6057275932
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Melancholy Acts : Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Middle Eastern, Middle East / Israel & Palestine
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Pj7538
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In Melancholy Acts , Nouri Gana travels between Algeria and Tunisia to Palestine and Egypt, examining the impact of European colonization and Israeli apartheid on Arab culture. Gana is unique among today's critics in firmly grounding his literary and psychoanalytic discussions of poetry and fiction, theory and film in current and past events, and in emphasizing the role that Euro-American invasions and economic neocolonialism play in the making of a defeatist melancholy within the Arab psyche. Gana's book is a powerful call for Arab thinkers and artists to turn melancholy into a discourse of empowerment and a 'decolonial project of emancipation.' In its call to action and in its incisive analyses, Melancholy Acts is a must read., In this lucid and powerful book, Nouri Gana offers a new understanding of militant melancholia in the course of patient, attentive, and consequential readings of Arab cultural production, including poetry, novels, films, and plays. Distinguishing between forms of melancholia as they enter into the critique of colonialism, Gana makes a strong and remarkable case for the power of melancholia in acts of cultural critique. Taking on insouciant critics and confounding theorists who dismiss or reduce the power of melancholy, Gana proves himself to be a singular and brilliant critic and theorist, letting psychoanalysis have a new life in the field of political resistance.
Table of Content
Note on Translation and Transliteration ix Introduction : Melancholy Acts 1 1 Melancholy Formations: From Nakba to Naksa and Beyond 45 2 Melancholy Forms: Poetry in the Aftermath of Catastrophe 89 3 Enduring Left Melancholy: Recasting the Crisis of the Nasserite Intellectual 123 4 Melancholy Manhood: Modernity and Neopatriarchy in Tunisian Cinema 158 5 Melancholy Ends: Palestinian Film and Narrative Martyrdom 195 6 Melancholy Islam: Jihad, Jouissance, and Female Clairvoyance 234 Epilogue : Melancholy Critique 277 Acknowledgments 293 The Unsheltering Sky: A Note on the Cover Art 297 Bibliography 299 Index 313
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
892.709006
Dewey Edition
23
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