{"product_id":"melancholy-acts-defeat-and-cultural-critique-in-the-arab-world-paperback-softback-9781531503505","title":"Melancholy Acts; Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531503505","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMelancholy Acts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDefeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNouri Gana (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531503505\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.477 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Acts \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Acts\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Acts\u003c\/i\u003e reads with rigor and sensitivity contentious topics of Arab contemporaneity such as secular modernity and manhood, Arab nationalism and leftism, literary and artistic \u003ci\u003eiltizām\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Žižek.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Acts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Translation and Transliteration\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Melancholy Acts   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholy Formations: From Nakba to Naksa and Beyond   45\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholy Forms: Poetry in the Aftermath of Catastrophe   89\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eEnduring Left Melancholy: Recasting the Crisis of the Nasserite Intellectual   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholy Manhood: Modernity and Neopatriarchy in Tunisian Cinema   158\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholy Ends: Palestinian Film and Narrative Martyrdom   195\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eMelancholy Islam: Jihad, Jouissance, and Female Clairvoyance   234\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Melancholy Critique   277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Unsheltering Sky: A Note on the Cover Art \u003c\/i\u003e  297\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  299\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  313\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670839947544,"sku":"9781531503505","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/melancholy-acts-defeat-and-cultural-critique-in-the-arab-world-paperback-softback-9781531503505","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}