Description:
An anthology of Arabic texts and English translations of works from the Arab Renaissance. The topics included are modernity, language, gender, transnationalism, literary criticism, politics, travel, social justice, technology, history, and commerce. The edition is designed for the classroom, with introductions to specific writers and works and with explanatory notes by the translators.
Brief description:
Tarek El-Ariss is associate professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (2013) and an associate editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature.
Review Quotes:
"This book's publication is a transformative event, making available for the first time, in Arabic as well as in English, both classic and unusual material from the explosion of writing that shook up the Arab world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." --Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los AngelesSaree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles