Generations of dissent : intellectuals, cultural production, and the state in the Middle East and north Africa /

Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and north Africa. Born of the contributo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Firat, Alexa (Editor), Taleghani, R. Shareah (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Subjects:	Dissenters > Middle East. Dissenters > Africa, North. Intellectuals > Middle East. Intellectuals > Africa, North. Politics and culture > Middle East. Politics and culture > Africa, North.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : generating forms of dissent / Alexa Firat and R. Shareah Taleghani
Ghosting dissent : Tariq Teguia's Zanj revolution / Suzanne Gauch
The gatekeepers : nation building and the emergence of a new intellectual class in post-1952 Egypt / Eman Morsi
Hadatha, dissent, and hegemonic masculinity in the short stories of Zakariyya Tamir / Alessandro Columbu
The artistic universe of Ziad Rahbani : the quest of a dissident in service of the Darawish / Chloe Kattar
Lost homelands, imaginary returns : the exilic literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews / Ella Shohat
The exilic condition and resistance in Jordanian literature / Alexa Firat
Breaking ranks with national unanimity : novelistic and cinematic returns of Jewish-Muslim intimacy in Morocco ? Brahim El Guabli
Muhammad al-Bisati and the aesthetics of dissent / Yasmine Ramadan
Aesthetics of journalistic dissent in Kurdish women's news / Caroline McKusick
Docu-ironies and visions of dissent in the films of Omar Amiralay / R. Shareah Taleghani.