Nouri Gana

Books

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  Melancholy Acts

  Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World 1st Edition

  Fordham University Press, 2023

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  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

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  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)