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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. **Review"The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual is one of those rare works that manages to describe an aesthetic formation - in this case, a generation of contemporary Arab writers - in order to reflect generatively on the intersections of history, politics and culture. Accessible and eloquent, this brilliant book forges new ways of relating to liter

Author

Zeina G Halabi; JSTOR (Organization)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474435673

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction