Generations of Dissent : Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa / by Alexa Firat (Editor), R. Shareah Taleghani (Editor)

Contents: 1. Ghosting Dissent: Tariq Teguia's Zanj Revolution / Suzanne Gauch; -- 2. The Gatekeepers: NationBuilding and the Emergence of a New Intellectual Class in Post-1952 Egypt / Eman Morsi; -- 3. Hadatha, Dissent, and Hegemonic Masculinity in the Short Stories of Zakariyya Tamir / Alessandro Columbu; -- 4. The Artistic Universe of Ziad Rahbani- The Quest of a Dissident in Service of the Darawish / Chloe Kattar; -- 5. Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns- The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews / Ella Shohat; -- 6. The Exilic Condition and Resistance in Jordanian Literature / Alexa Firat; -- 7. Breaking Ranks with National Unanimity: Novelistic and Cinematic Returns of Jewish-Muslim Intimacy in Morocco / Brahmin El Guabli; 8. Muhammad al-Bisati and the Aesthetics of Dissent / Yasmine Ramadan; 9. Aesthetics of Journalistic Dissent in Kurdish Women's News / Caroline McKusick; 10. Docu-ironies and Visions of Dissent in the Films of Omar Amiraly / R. Shareah Taleghani.

Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa. Born of the contributors’ research on dissidence and state co-option in a variety of artistic and creative fields, the volume’s core themes reflect the notion that the recent Arab uprisings did not appear in a cultural, political, or historical vacuum. Rather than focus on how protestors “finally” broke the walls of fear created by authoritarian regimes in the region, these essays show that the uprisings were rooted in multiple generations and various acts of resistance decades prior to 2010–11. Firat and Taleghani’s volume maps the complicated trajectories of artistic and creative dissent across time and space, showing how artists have challenged institutions and governments over the past six decades.

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