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Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.

Modernism (Literature) --- Literature, Experimental --- Arabic literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- Avant-garde literature --- Experimental literature --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Affect Theory. --- Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq. --- Ahmed Alaidy. --- Arab Spring. --- Arabic Literature. --- Hanan al-Shaykh. --- Nahda. --- Rifa'a al-Tahtawi. --- Tayeb Salih. --- Travel Literature.