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" Unruly Bodies: Modernity, Dissensus, and the Political Subject in the Postcolonial Arab World "
Ghada Mourad
Rahimieh, Nasrin; Al-Kassim, Dina
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804787
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TL49623
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1967191123; 10635874
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Islam, Saiyida Zakiya Hasna
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Unruly Bodies: Modernity, Dissensus, and the Political Subject in the Postcolonial Arab World\ Ghada MouradRahimieh, Nasrin; Al-Kassim, Dina
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University of California, Irvine
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Comparative Literature
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2017
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182
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Committee members: Ahmad, Aijaz; Radhakrishnan, Rajagopalan
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-41430-1
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This dissertation studies the articulation of modernity in its understanding as dissensus through the performativity of queer bodies in post-1960 Arabic and Francophone literature in the Middle East and North Africa. More specifically, I study Sonallah Ibrahim’s <i>Tilka al-Rā'iha</i>, Mohamed Leftah’s <i>Le Dernier combat du Captain Nimat</i>, and Hoda Barakat’s <i>Ahl el-Hawa</i> and <i>Hajar al-Dahik</i>. I challenge the prevailing depiction of the modern Arab subject as ideological and/or submissive, an image that has been tainting this subject since the 1967 Defeat, and which has re-emerged in force following the recent political disappointments in the Arab world, by demonstrating that this subject is formed and expresses itself as a subject of desire, the engine of change.
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Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Gender studies; Registers (Sociolinguistics); Creativity; Pointing; Arabic language; Literary criticism; Ontology; Males; Politics; Feminism; Articulation; Concept formation; Ideology; Sex and sexuality; Attitudes
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic literature;Francophone literature;Gendered body in literature;Modernity;North-African literature;Postcolonialism
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Rahimieh, Nasrin; Al-Kassim, Dina
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Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Irvine
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