5 décembre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Walid El Khachab, « The Cinema of the Pharaohs: Film, Archeology, and Sub-Imperialism », Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, ID : 10.4000/books.inha.7196
Khaled Fahmy’s Foucauldian analysis of certain nineteenth-century Egyptian practices based on archival material introduces a rather original notion to modernity studies focused on the encounters between the West and the Arab world: the absence of any sense of an emotional claim to an identity, of any identity crisis among ordinary people in their dealings with the institutions and practices of modernity. Therefore, one may wonder whether this notion of anguish vis-à-vis modernity, or “qalaq” ...