ISBN:
9781137392442
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version A. El-Desouky, Ayman The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture : Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution
DDC:
306.20962
Keywords:
Solidarity--Political aspects--Egypt
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of amra - the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency - to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency -- Part I The Intellectual and the Quest for Amara -- 1 Amara: Concept, Cultural Practice and Aesthetic -- 2 Signature or Cartouche? Dilemmas of the Egyptian Intellectual -- Part II The People and the Amara of Connective Agency -- 3 The People Already Know: Positionality of the Intellectual, Connective Agency and Cultural Memory -- 4 The Amara on the Square: Some Reflections Post 25 January 2011 -- Postscript: Ih. na al-mas.riyyin and al-sha'b: The Untranslatabilities of Conceptual Languages -- Bibliography -- Index.
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