The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474421393)

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory in works by Rabee Jaber, Elia Suleiman, Rawi Hage, Rashid al-Daif, and Seba al-Herz. She argues that the ambivalence and disillusionment with the role of the intellectual in contemporary representations operate as a productive reclaiming of the 'political' in an allegedly apolitical context. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual offers the critical tools to understand the evolving relations between the intellectual and power, and the author and the text in the hitherto uncharted contemporary era.

Author: Zeina G. Halabi
ISBN-10: 1474421393
ISBN-13: 9781474421393
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.70d