ISBN:
9780415521840
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (295 p)
Series Statement:
Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World
DDC:
306.6/9709174927
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a range of contexts of production and reception, from the early twentieth century to the present, and with reference to cultural production in and/or about Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, the Gulf, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine. The material engaged with is produced in Arabic, English and French and includes fiction, autobiography, feature f
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors and affiliations; A note on transliteration and translation; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Symbolic power, representation and reception; 1 Islam in Arabic literature: The struggle for symbolic power; 2 Managing religion in the name of national community; 3 Islamically marked bodies and urban space in two Egyptian films; 4 Piety, youth and Egyptian cinema: Still seeking Islamic space; Part II: Types, tropes and teleologies
Description / Table of Contents:
5 'Those who cure you will kill you': The doctor and the terrorist in Arab fiction and film6 'Ostentatious veils' in the Moroccan weeklies Tel Quel and Nichan; 7 'Drives in the name of freedom': Desire and death in North African Islamization plots; 8 Islamism, capitalism and mimetic desire in the terrorism novel: Fantasy and dream; Part III: National, regional and international frames; 9 Al-Manar and Hizbullah: Creative instances in propaganda warfare; 10 Video games as civilizational configurations: US-Arab encounters
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Rap and Islamism in post-revolutionary Tunisia: Local idiosyncrasies and global reverberations12 Towards a new language: Liberating Arab artists from Islamist discourses; 13 Stateless confederations: Revolutions of Islamic consciousness in the Arab world; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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