Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counterimperial Literatures - Couverture rigide

Lienau, Annette Damayanti

 
9780691249803: Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counterimperial Literatures
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0691249806 ISBN 13 : 9780691249803
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal

Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic's global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by vast distances. By tracing controversies over the use of Arabic in three countries with distinct colonial legacies, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal, the book presents a new approach to the study of postcolonial literatures, anticolonial nationalisms, and the global circulation of pluralist ideas.

Annette Damayanti Lienau presents the largely untold story of how Arabic, often understood in Africa and Asia as a language of Islamic ritual and precolonial commerce, assumed a transregional role as an anticolonial literary medium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining how major writers and intellectuals across several generations grappled with the cultural asymmetries imposed by imperial Europe, Lienau shows that Arabic--as a cosmopolitan, interethnic, and interreligious language--complicated debates over questions of indigeneity, religious pluralism, counter-imperial nationalisms, and emerging nation-states.

Unearthing parallels from West Africa to Southeast Asia, Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference argues that debates comparing the status of Arabic to other languages challenged not only Eurocentric but Arabocentric forms of ethnolinguistic and racial prejudice in both local and global terms.

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À propos de l?auteur

Annette Damayanti Lienau is assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691249806
ISBN 13 
9780691249803
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780691249834: Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counterimperial Literatures

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ISBN 10 :  0691249830 ISBN 13 :  9780691249834
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2024
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