Nouri Gana
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 225361 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nouri Gana |
| PRENOMES | Nouri |
| SOBRENOME | Gana |
| ASSINATURA | GANA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Melancholy Acts
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? Could 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 analytical engagements with modern, postcolonial and cont…
Afteraffect
This essay discusses the politics of affect in post-1967 Arabic literary and cultural production. It argues that melancholia's underappreciated swerve from normative structures of power and mourning is a threshold moment of critical and cultural enablement in the Arab world, where the nexus between proxy and settler colonialisms continues to produce and reproduce almost all aspects of literature and culture
Powers of Powerlessness
This article examines the cultural politics of defeat in the cinema of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid. Taking a lead from Bouzid’s directorial début Man of Ashes, the author focuses on Golden Horseshoes (1989) and Making of (2006), the two films that best dramatize the continuities between the crisis of filiation and the crisis of affiliation, and that deal head-on with left-wing (socialism) and right-wing (religious fundamentalism) ideologies. …
Sons of a Beach
This article examines the cultural politics of bastardy in the films of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid at a time when questions of national and cultural identity have come to the fore in Tunisia in the wake of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity. Nouri Bouzid is the doyen of Tunisian cinema. Not only was he involved in every major postcolonial film, whether as a screenwriter, a scriptwriter, or even as an actor, but he single-handedly directed…
The Making of the Tunisian Revolution
A full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the ongoing process of becoming a democracyGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691036','ISBN:9780748691043','ISBN:9780748691050','ISBN:9780748691067']);From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long over…
The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English
19 stimulating new essays look at the Anglo-Arab novel from 1911 to the present day GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685530','ISBN:9780748685554','ISBN:9780748685578']); Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this reference companion spans from the first Arab novel in 1911 right up to the present day, focusing on the resurgence of the Anglo-Arabic novel in the last 20 years. The combination of classr…
Making of the Tunisian Revolution
Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English
Visions of Dissent, Voices of Discontent
The dawn of the Arab uprisings
Rap and Revolt in the Arab World
This essay approaches the phenomenon of Arab rap music as an emergent form of cultural and communal intelligibility and solidarity; its simultaneous influence on and indebtedness to global hip-hop and youth cultural movements has transformed it into an increasingly transnational collaborative project, bringing together a heterogeneous array of artists despite their dispersed geopolitical locations. The essay sheds light on the preoccupations of t…
Formless Form
Research Article| January 01 2010 FORMLESS FORM:ELIAS KHOURY’S CITY GATES AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMA Nouri Gana Nouri Gana University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (4): 504–532. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.4.0504 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; FORMLESS FORM:ELI…
Bourguiba's sons
For more than three decades after its independence from France in 1956, Tunisia was ruled by Habib Bourguiba, a self-professed secular nationalist who sought to hitch the wagon of the young nation to the train of European modernity both socially and economically. While his era was marked by laudable developments in the area of women's rights, his reign was autocratic. He gradually but steadily tightened his grip on power (proclaiming himself pres…
War, Poetry, Mourning
Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that "to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canon…
Everyday Arabness
Everyday ArabnessThe Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Film Nouri Gana (bio) North America is seemingly open terrain. Melting pot and multiculturalism have been articulated as cultural themes to which anyone can contribute. But this is theory not practice. —Marwan Hassan, 2002 The everyday is platitude ... but this banality is also what is most important, if it brings us back to existence in its very spontaneity and as it is lived—in the m…
Introduction
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Introduction
The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not only to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cult…
Reel Violence
This essay seeks to investigate the aporias and dilemmas of representation that Arab writers and artists confront at a time when the Arab world has become overly mediatized and ideologically territorialized as a zone of sectarian violence and death. For all the reports on Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, the Arab world suffers from what might be called a collapse of witnessing. By focusing on the controversies over the humanization of terrorism in H…
In Search Of Andalusia
Research Article| January 01 2008 In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent Nouri Gana Nouri Gana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (2): 228–246. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659651 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent. Compara…
Symbolic Loss
Of Contrapuntology
Of Contrapuntology: Said’s Freud Nouri Gana (bio) Said, Edward. Freud and the Non-European. Jacqueline Rose (Afterword), Christopher Bollas (Introduction). New York: Verso, 2003. I am always trying to understand figures from the past whom I admire, even if as I point out how bound they were by the perspectives of their own cultural moment as far as their views of other cultures and peoples were concerned . . . I see them contrapuntally, that is, …
The Poetics of Mourning
"One mourns less for what was than for what can no longer happen now." —Hans-Jost Frey, Interruptions In his pioneering rethinking of received attitudes about autobiography, Paul de Man (1984) lays bare the tropological structure of referentiality operative in, and constitutive of, every autobiographical discourse. The logic of tropes, while being potentially restorative, is, de Man expounds, incurably privative; and prosopopoeia, the trope of au…
The Work of Mourning
Had Derrida kept this resolve, we would not have this volume, which brings together "writings" ranging from letters of condolence and memorial essays to eulogies and funeral orations, "written" over almost two decades on a pantheon of French and American intellectuals, and assembed here for the first time. Yet, curiously enough, Derrida does not admit that they have, after all, been written. He wants to give a wide berth to the Scylla of writing …
Bourguiba's sons
For more than three decades after its independence from France in 1956, Tunisia was ruled by Habib Bourguiba, a self-professed secular nationalist who sought to hitch the wagon of the young nation to the train of European modernity both socially and economically. While his era was marked by laudable developments in the area of women's rights, his reign was autocratic. He gradually but steadily tightened his grip on power (proclaiming himself pres…
Introduction
The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not only to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cult…
Rap and Revolt in the Arab World
This essay approaches the phenomenon of Arab rap music as an emergent form of cultural and communal intelligibility and solidarity; its simultaneous influence on and indebtedness to global hip-hop and youth cultural movements has transformed it into an increasingly transnational collaborative project, bringing together a heterogeneous array of artists despite their dispersed geopolitical locations. The essay sheds light on the preoccupations of t…
War, Poetry, Mourning
Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that "to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canon…
Everyday Arabness
Everyday ArabnessThe Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Film Nouri Gana (bio) North America is seemingly open terrain. Melting pot and multiculturalism have been articulated as cultural themes to which anyone can contribute. But this is theory not practice. —Marwan Hassan, 2002 The everyday is platitude ... but this banality is also what is most important, if it brings us back to existence in its very spontaneity and as it is lived—in the m…
Afteraffect
This essay discusses the politics of affect in post-1967 Arabic literary and cultural production. It argues that melancholia's underappreciated swerve from normative structures of power and mourning is a threshold moment of critical and cultural enablement in the Arab world, where the nexus between proxy and settler colonialisms continues to produce and reproduce almost all aspects of literature and culture
Formless Form
Research Article| January 01 2010 FORMLESS FORM:ELIAS KHOURY’S CITY GATES AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMA Nouri Gana Nouri Gana University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (4): 504–532. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.4.0504 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; FORMLESS FORM:ELI…
Reel Violence
This essay seeks to investigate the aporias and dilemmas of representation that Arab writers and artists confront at a time when the Arab world has become overly mediatized and ideologically territorialized as a zone of sectarian violence and death. For all the reports on Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, the Arab world suffers from what might be called a collapse of witnessing. By focusing on the controversies over the humanization of terrorism in H…
In Search Of Andalusia
Research Article| January 01 2008 In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent Nouri Gana Nouri Gana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (2): 228–246. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659651 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent. Compara…
The Work of Mourning
Had Derrida kept this resolve, we would not have this volume, which brings together "writings" ranging from letters of condolence and memorial essays to eulogies and funeral orations, "written" over almost two decades on a pantheon of French and American intellectuals, and assembed here for the first time. Yet, curiously enough, Derrida does not admit that they have, after all, been written. He wants to give a wide berth to the Scylla of writing …
The Poetics of Mourning
"One mourns less for what was than for what can no longer happen now." —Hans-Jost Frey, Interruptions In his pioneering rethinking of received attitudes about autobiography, Paul de Man (1984) lays bare the tropological structure of referentiality operative in, and constitutive of, every autobiographical discourse. The logic of tropes, while being potentially restorative, is, de Man expounds, incurably privative; and prosopopoeia, the trope of au…
The Work of Mourning
Had Derrida kept this resolve, we would not have this volume, which brings together "writings" ranging from letters of condolence and memorial essays to eulogies and funeral orations, "written" over almost two decades on a pantheon of French and American intellectuals, and assembed here for the first time. Yet, curiously enough, Derrida does not admit that they have, after all, been written. He wants to give a wide berth to the Scylla of writing …
Of Contrapuntology
Of Contrapuntology: Said’s Freud Nouri Gana (bio) Said, Edward. Freud and the Non-European. Jacqueline Rose (Afterword), Christopher Bollas (Introduction). New York: Verso, 2003. I am always trying to understand figures from the past whom I admire, even if as I point out how bound they were by the perspectives of their own cultural moment as far as their views of other cultures and peoples were concerned . . . I see them contrapuntally, that is, …
Symbolic Loss
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Introduction
The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not only to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cult…
Reel Violence
This essay seeks to investigate the aporias and dilemmas of representation that Arab writers and artists confront at a time when the Arab world has become overly mediatized and ideologically territorialized as a zone of sectarian violence and death. For all the reports on Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, the Arab world suffers from what might be called a collapse of witnessing. By focusing on the controversies over the humanization of terrorism in H…
In Search Of Andalusia
Research Article| January 01 2008 In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent Nouri Gana Nouri Gana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (2): 228–246. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659651 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent. Compara…
Everyday Arabness
Everyday ArabnessThe Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Film Nouri Gana (bio) North America is seemingly open terrain. Melting pot and multiculturalism have been articulated as cultural themes to which anyone can contribute. But this is theory not practice. —Marwan Hassan, 2002 The everyday is platitude ... but this banality is also what is most important, if it brings us back to existence in its very spontaneity and as it is lived—in the m…
Formless Form
Research Article| January 01 2010 FORMLESS FORM:ELIAS KHOURY’S CITY GATES AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMA Nouri Gana Nouri Gana University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (4): 504–532. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.4.0504 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nouri Gana; FORMLESS FORM:ELI…
Bourguiba's sons
For more than three decades after its independence from France in 1956, Tunisia was ruled by Habib Bourguiba, a self-professed secular nationalist who sought to hitch the wagon of the young nation to the train of European modernity both socially and economically. While his era was marked by laudable developments in the area of women's rights, his reign was autocratic. He gradually but steadily tightened his grip on power (proclaiming himself pres…
War, Poetry, Mourning
Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that "to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canon…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings
Rap and Revolt in the Arab World
This essay approaches the phenomenon of Arab rap music as an emergent form of cultural and communal intelligibility and solidarity; its simultaneous influence on and indebtedness to global hip-hop and youth cultural movements has transformed it into an increasingly transnational collaborative project, bringing together a heterogeneous array of artists despite their dispersed geopolitical locations. The essay sheds light on the preoccupations of t…
The Making of the Tunisian Revolution
A full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the ongoing process of becoming a democracyGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691036','ISBN:9780748691043','ISBN:9780748691050','ISBN:9780748691067']);From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long over…
The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English
19 stimulating new essays look at the Anglo-Arab novel from 1911 to the present day GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685530','ISBN:9780748685554','ISBN:9780748685578']); Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab literature to critical debate, this reference companion spans from the first Arab novel in 1911 right up to the present day, focusing on the resurgence of the Anglo-Arabic novel in the last 20 years. The combination of classr…
Making of the Tunisian Revolution
Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English
Visions of Dissent, Voices of Discontent
Powers of Powerlessness
This article examines the cultural politics of defeat in the cinema of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid. Taking a lead from Bouzid’s directorial début Man of Ashes, the author focuses on Golden Horseshoes (1989) and Making of (2006), the two films that best dramatize the continuities between the crisis of filiation and the crisis of affiliation, and that deal head-on with left-wing (socialism) and right-wing (religious fundamentalism) ideologies. …
Sons of a Beach
This article examines the cultural politics of bastardy in the films of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid at a time when questions of national and cultural identity have come to the fore in Tunisia in the wake of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity. Nouri Bouzid is the doyen of Tunisian cinema. Not only was he involved in every major postcolonial film, whether as a screenwriter, a scriptwriter, or even as an actor, but he single-handedly directed…
Afteraffect
This essay discusses the politics of affect in post-1967 Arabic literary and cultural production. It argues that melancholia's underappreciated swerve from normative structures of power and mourning is a threshold moment of critical and cultural enablement in the Arab world, where the nexus between proxy and settler colonialisms continues to produce and reproduce almost all aspects of literature and culture
Melancholy Acts
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? Could 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 analytical engagements with modern, postcolonial and cont…
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