This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences
interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual
environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It
comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics
such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army
in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text
in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the
Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex
interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms,
local and international practices, notions of identity and
belonging. The book demonstrates how the interaction between Arabic
and non-Arabic cultural and intellectual production as well as
influences from imperial Europe and the Islamic East, have in
various times and spaces inspired creative tensions which challenge
binary views of East-West relations and the standard
imperialist-colonial frameworks. In this sense the volume seeks to
offer a critique of both established modernising conceptions of
cultural development and nationalist, nativist frameworks based on
the values of a specific political project.
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