Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From radical distrust to the darwish avant-garde -- Chapter 1: Politics as theatre in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition -- Chapter 2: Discourses of authenticity and poetic good faith: Algeria, Israel and Syria -- Chapter 3: From hegemonic interpellations to revolutionary signs or amāra -- Chapter 4: Chronic disappointment, humiliation and pariah elitism in the Arab novel -- Chapter 5: Cults of pride and cultures of right-wing populism -- Chapter 6: The poetics of karāmah or why the Egyptian revolution was a poem -- Chapter 7: Figuring the sacred in martyr art -- Chapter 8: Equine messianism in Palestinian literature and art -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Work cited -- Index.

1. Introduction: From Radical Distrust to the Arab Avant-Garde. -- 2. Politics as Theatre in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. -- 3. Discourses of Authenticity and Poetic Good Faith: Algeria, Israel, and Syria. -- 4. From Hegemonic Interpellations to Revolutionary Signs, e.g. Egypt. -- 5. Chronic Disappointment and Humiliation in the Arab Novel. -- 6. Cults of Pride and the Cultural Expression of Right Wing Populism. -- 7. Karama or Why the Egyptian Revolution Was a Poem. -- 8. Figurations of the Sacred in Martyr Art and Equine Messianism. - Mode of access: World Wide Web