Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel by Elizabeth

Description: Fictitious Capital by Elizabeth M. Holt The ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press; time itself was changing. Khall al-Khr, Salm al-Bustn, and Jurj Zaydn wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and British empire. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 others 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-Jinan, Al-Muqtataf, and Al-Hilal. 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. Author Biography Elizabeth M. Holt is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. Review "Compelling, inventive, and brilliantly argued, Elizabeth Holts Fictitious Capital immediately becomes required reading. Linking literary history to financial speculation, modes of consumption, the development of the press in Arabic, the emergence of the book as a modern form, and the changing forms of language and writing in this period, this book has implications for virtually all of the fields within Arabic studies, and beyond, as it changes the ways in which we think about language, reading, modernity, and economy." -- -Jeffrey Sacks University of California, Riverside "In this meticulously researched study, Elizabeth Holt offers a much needed reassessment of the nineteenth century Arabic cultural movement known as al-nahdah (revival). Her focus on the linkages between fiction publication and commerce underlines the foundational contributions made by Syro-Lebanese intellectuals in the earliest development of modern Arabic fiction that have continued into the twentieth century and beyond." -- -Roger Allen University of Pennsylvania Long Description 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 others 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-Jinan, Al-Muqtataf, and Al-Hilal. 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. Review Quote This important new work challenges paradigms for the study of the rise of the novel and assumptions about the Nahah , pushing forward scholarship in the field of Arabic literature. Description for Reader Elizabeth M. Holt is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. Details ISBN0823276023 Author Elizabeth M. Holt Pages 196 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 0823276023 ISBN-13 9780823276028 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2017-07-03 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 892.735 Short Title Fictitious Capital Language English UK Release Date 2017-07-03 AU Release Date 2017-07-03 NZ Release Date 2017-07-03 US Release Date 2017-07-03 Edited by Jason D. Lotay Birth 1944 Affiliation Amazon.com, Inc, Usa Position EDFRTR Qualifications Sir Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161671124;

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