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Culture and hegemony in the colonial Middle East /

This work is a study of the nature and origin of nationality and modern social ideals in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Bringing together writings on political and social reform with literary works, Noorani challenges dominant assumptions abou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noorani, Yaseen, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sovereign virtue and the emergence of nationality
  • The death of the hero and the birth of bourgeois class status
  • Order, agency, and the economy of desire : Islamic reformism and Arab nationalism
  • The moral transformation of femininity and the rise of the public-private distinction in colonial Egypt
  • Fiction, hegemony, and aesthetic citizenship
  • Excess, rebellion, and revolution : Egyptian modernity in the Trilogy.