Brady Patrick Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6758884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brady Patrick Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brady Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ
In this article, I outline a trajectory of aesthetic critique of the authoritarian present in Egypt from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm’s novellas Tilka al-rāʾiḥa and 67 to Muḥammad Rabīʿ’s ʿUṭārid, from the disappointments and defeats of the Nasser era to the despair of the postrevolutionary present. This trajectory of critique emerges from progressive time’s collapse upon the present and is rooted in aesthetics of exhaustion and disgust. I read Ibrāhīm’s ph…
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh
This paper theorizes the Sufi notion of shawq (longing) in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s novel Shawq al-darwīsh, as a method of critique emerging from Sufi philosophy and the history of nineteenth-century anti-colonial Sufi resistance movements in Sudan and throughout North Africa. Specifically, Ziyāda’s fictional return to the violence of the colonial era and the Mahdist revolt presents shawq as a radically persistent political and spiritual ethic. Through an…
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique
This article seeks to clarify the stakes of Arwa Salih’s critical methodology by reading her project—specifically, her development of Milan Kundera’s notion of kitsch, her analytic use of gender, and her formal and political concern with legacy and inheritance—alongside the literary history of iltizam. The article contends that Salih’s critical method and search for ethical knowledge frame iltizam as a form of militant kitsch that prized dogma an…
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Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ
In this article, I outline a trajectory of aesthetic critique of the authoritarian present in Egypt from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm’s novellas Tilka al-rāʾiḥa and 67 to Muḥammad Rabīʿ’s ʿUṭārid, from the disappointments and defeats of the Nasser era to the despair of the postrevolutionary present. This trajectory of critique emerges from progressive time’s collapse upon the present and is rooted in aesthetics of exhaustion and disgust. I read Ibrāhīm’s ph…
Specters of Sufism in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s Shawq al-darwīsh
This paper theorizes the Sufi notion of shawq (longing) in Ḥammūr Ziyāda’s novel Shawq al-darwīsh, as a method of critique emerging from Sufi philosophy and the history of nineteenth-century anti-colonial Sufi resistance movements in Sudan and throughout North Africa. Specifically, Ziyāda’s fictional return to the violence of the colonial era and the Mahdist revolt presents shawq as a radically persistent political and spiritual ethic. Through an…
Arwa Salih’s Gendered Critique
This article seeks to clarify the stakes of Arwa Salih’s critical methodology by reading her project—specifically, her development of Milan Kundera’s notion of kitsch, her analytic use of gender, and her formal and political concern with legacy and inheritance—alongside the literary history of iltizam. The article contends that Salih’s critical method and search for ethical knowledge frame iltizam as a form of militant kitsch that prized dogma an…
Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)