Nouri Gana

Books

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  Melancholy Acts

  Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World 1st Edition

  Fordham University Press, 2023

• The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English

  The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English

  The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture

  Edinburgh University Press, May 2015

• The Making of the Tunisian Revolution

  The Making of the Tunisian Revolution

  Contexts, Architects, Prospects

  Edinburgh University Press, September 2013

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  Signifying Loss

  Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning

  Bucknell University Press, 2011

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Jihad on the Couch,” Psychoanalysis and History 20.3 (Fall 2018): 371-386.
• “Islam after Lacan,” After Lacan, ed. Ankhi Mukherjee (Cambridge UP, 2018): 206-224.
• “Afteraffect: Arabic Literature and Affective Politics,” Representations 143 (Summer 2018): 118-137.
• “Film and Cultural Dissent in Tunisia,” in Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring, ed. Osama Abi-Mershed (Oxford UP, 2018): 165-185.
• “Powers of Powerlessness: The Politics of Defeat in the Cinema of Nouri Bouzid,” Journal of Visual Culture 16.2    (August 2017): 253-273.
• “Sons of a Beach: The Politics of Bastardy in the Cinema of Nouri Bouzid,” Cultural Politics 13.2 (July 2017): 177-193.
• “Dissident Tunisia: Culture and Revolt,” in The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories, eds. Fahed Al-Sumait, Nele Lenze and Michael Hudson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015): 93-111.
• “Tunisia,” in Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East, eds. Vijay Prashad and Paul Amar (Minnesota UP, 2013), 1-23.
• “Trauma Ties: Chiasmus and Community in Lebanese Civil War Literature,” in The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary Criticism, eds. Gert Buelens, Samuel Durrant and Robert Eaglestone (Routledge 2013): 77-90.
• “Rapping and Remapping the Tunisian Revolution,” in Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music, eds. Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy (Routledge 2013), 207-225.
• “Rap and Revolt in the Arab World,” Social Text 30.4 (2012): 25-53.
• “Enduring Left Melancholia: Mahfouz’s The Beggar and the Nasserite Intellectual,” in MLA Approaches to the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, eds., Waïl S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj (MLA 2012): 65-84.
• “War, Poetry, Mourning: Darwish, Adonis, Iraq,” Public Culture 22.1 (2010): 33-65.
• “Formless Form: Elias Khoury’s City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma,” Comparative Literature Studies 47.4 (2010): 504-532.
• “Bourguiba’s Sons: Melancholy Manhood in Modern Tunisian Cinema,” The Journal of North African Studies 15.1 (2010): 105-126.
• “Everyday Arabness: The Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Culture,” CR: The New Centennial Review 9.2 (2009): 21-44.
• “Introduction: Race, Islam, and the Task of Muslim and Arab American Writing,” PMLA 123.5 (2008): 1573-1580.
• “In Search of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent,”Comparative Literature Studies 45.2 (2008): 228-246.
• “Reel Violence: Paradise Now and the Collapse of the Spectacle,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28.1 (2008): 20-37.
• “The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce,”James Joyce Quarterly 44.1 (2007):95-109, [Reprint in Short Story Criticism, forthcoming].
  “Of Contrapuntology: Said’s Freud.” Theory & Event 7.2 (2004).
• “Revolutionaries without a Revolution: The Case of Julia Kristeva,”College Literature 31.4 (2004):188-202.
• “Remembering Forbidding Mourning: Repetition, Indifference, Melanxiety, Hamlet,”Mosaic 37.2 (2004): 59-78.
• “Beyond the Pale: Toward an Exemplary Relationship between the Judge and the Literary Critic,”Law and Literature 15.3 (2003): 313-343.
• “The Poetics of Mourning: The Tropologic of Prosopopoeia in Joyce’s “The Dead.”American Imago 60.2 (2003): 159-178.
• “Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce’s Dubliners.” Études Irlandaises 28.1 (2003): 25-43.
• “The Specter of Relativism: A Critical Review of Norman Holland’s Models of Reader-Response,” Modern Criticism, eds. Christopher Rollason and Rajeshwar Mittapalli (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, (2002), 25-59.
• “Toward an Exemplary Relationship between the Judge and the Literary Critic,” Modern Criticism, eds. Christopher Rollason and Rajeshwar Mittapalli (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2002), 209-243.
• “Donne Undone: The Journey of Psychic Re-Integration in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock,” Ariel 32.1 (2001): 153-170.
• “Forbidden Otherness: Jane’s Plain Regress,” The Atlantic Literary Review 2:1 (2001): 1-23. [On Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre]

Reviews

• Review of Akher film/Making-Of by Nouri Bouzid, Farafina 15 (2008),“Remapping Africanness” special issue.
• Review of De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage, International Fiction Review 34.1&2 (2007): 196-98.
• Review of Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century’s End by Peter Homans. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 10.2 (2005): 225-28.
• Review of Eros in Mourning by Henry Staten. Cultural Critique 61 (2005): 224-230.
• Review of The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida. SubStance 32.1 (2003): 150-155

Op-Eds

• “The Battle for Tunisia’s Identity,” The Guardian (10/22/2011)
• “Libya’s Tragedy, Gaddafi’s Farce,” The Electronic Intifada (02/22/2011)
• “Revolution is an Export Tunisia Can be Proud of,” The Electronic Intifada (02/08/2011)
• “Let’s Not Forget About Tunisia,” Jadaliyya (01/30/2011),
• “After Tunisia,” The Guardian (01/28/2011)
• “Arab Despise Thyself,” Counterpunch (02/17/2010)