Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

by Nouri Gana

Book Overview

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531503500
• ISBN13: 9781531503505
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"