ISBN:
0415428971
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9780415428972
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 335 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies 13
Parallel Title:
Print version Egypt's Culture Wars : Politics and Practice
DDC:
306.0962
Keywords:
Arts, Egyptian 20th century
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Politics and literature
;
Culture conflict
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Arabic literature History and criticism
;
Politics and culture
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Arts Political aspects
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Egypt Intellectual life 20th century
;
Egypt Intellectual life 21st century
Abstract:
This groundbreaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue: Take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis; Part I: Inside the literary establishment; 1 Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field; 2 Children of our alley: The AUC Naguib Mahfouz Award and the Egyptian literary field; 3 The big one: The intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literature; 4 The value of freedom: The writer against the establishment; Part II: Remaking culture
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Lost in globalization: Education and the stranded Egyptian elite6 Translating gender between the local and the global; 7 Where have all the families gone?: Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s; 8 From the hara to the imara: Emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo; Part III: The bounds of change; 9 Taking the soap out of the opera: The case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family; 10 The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere; 11 Found in Cairo: The limits of representation in the visual field
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Literature and literalism: The Al-Khubz al-hafi crisis reconsideredEpilogue; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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