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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Melancholy Acts
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk \nMelancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World \nABOUT THE BOOK \nHow 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? Might 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 engagements with Arab thought\, literature\, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNouri Gana is Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition to Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World (Fordham University Press\, 2023)\, he is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP\, 2011/paperback 2015)\, and the editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts\, Architects\, Prospects & The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP\, 2013/paperback 2015). \nRESPONDENTS \n\nSaree Makdisi (Chair and Professor\, English\, UCLA)\nJeffrey Sacks (Associate Professor and Chair\, Comparative Literature & Arabic\, UC Riverside)\n\n[gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
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