Name: Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 49468889
Price: 773.20 MXN
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth M. Holt
ISBN: 9780823276035

portada Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (en Inglés)

Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Modern Language Initiative

Autor

Elizabeth M. Holt

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

196

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780823276035

N° edición

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Historia de oriente próximo

Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (en Inglés)

Elizabeth M. Holt (Autor) · Modern Language Initiative · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 22 a 27 días háb.

$ 1,405.82$ 773.20

-45%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 2 unidades

$ 773.20

¡Envío Gratis! Llega entre el 19 Nov y el 27 Nov a CUAUHTÉMOC, Ciudad de México. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (en Inglés)"

The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late-nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk begin to appear in Arabic at a moment when France and Britain were unseating the Ottoman legacy in Beirut, Cairo, and beyond. Amid booms and crashes, serialized Arabic fiction and finance at once tell the other’s story.While scholars of Arabic often write of a Nahdah, a sense of renaissance, Fictitious Capital argues instead that we read the trope of Nahdah as Walter Benjamin might have, as “one of the monuments of the bourgeoisie that [are] already in ruins.” Financial speculation engendered an anxious mixture of hope and fear formally expressed in the mingling of financial news and serialized novels in such Arabic journals as Al-Jinān, Al-Muqtataf, and Al-Hilāl. Holt recasts the historiography of the Nahdah, showing its sense of rise and renaissance to be a utopian, imperially mediated narrative of capital that encrypted its inevitable counterpart, capital flight.