Minorities in the contemporary Egyptian novel /

Through a robust analysis of several new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Youssef, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Temas:
Egyptian fiction.
Roman égyptien ancien.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Egyptian fiction
Social conditions
Egypt > Social conditions.
Égypte > Conditions sociales.
Egypt
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction Historical Transformations: Framing a New Consciousness in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel; 1 History and Representations of Otherness in ʻAli Idris's al-Nubi and Bahaʼ Tahir's Sunset Oasis; 2 Reading Cosmopolitanism in Yusuf Zaydan's Azazeel and Muʻtazz Futayha's Akhir yahud al-iskandariyya; 3 The Irrecuperable Heterogeneity of the Present in ʻAlaʼ al-Aswani's The Yacoubian Building and Chicago
  • 4 Heart Deserts: Memory and Myth between Life and Death in Asharaf al-Khumaysi's Manafi al-rabb and Miral al-Tahawi's The TentEpilogue: New Directions; Bibliography; Index.

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