Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings
In: Written Culture and Identity Ser.
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From radical distrust to the darwish avant-garde -- Chapter 1: Politics as theatre in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition -- Chapter 2: Discourses of authenticity and poetic good faith: Algeria, Israel and Syria -- Chapter 3: From hegemonic interpellations to revolutionary signs or amāra -- Chapter 4: Chronic disappointment, humiliation and pariah elitism in the Arab novel -- Chapter 5: Cults of pride and cultures of right-wing populism -- Chapter 6: The poetics of karāmah or why the Egyptian revolution was a poem -- Chapter 7: Figuring the sacred in martyr art -- Chapter 8: Equine messianism in Palestinian literature and art -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Work cited -- Index.