ISBN:
978-3-11-072677-0
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3-11-072677-7
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 272 Seiten
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Illustrationen (teils farbig), Karte
Series Statement:
ZMO-Studien Band 41
Keywords:
Ägypten Arabischer Frühling
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Ethnologie
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Schriftsteller
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Anthropologie, politische
Abstract:
Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt`s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division.Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011.Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- On names, pronouns, and spelling -- List of illustrations -- Map of Alexandria -- Introduction: Where is Literature? -- Part 1. About Writing -- 1 Why write, and why not stop? -- 2 Infrastructures of imagination -- 3 The writing of lives -- Part 2I: Writing About -- 4 Can poetry change the world? -- 5 Where is Alexandria? -- 6 Writing on walls -- 7 Is prose poetry a conspiracy against the Noble Qur'an? -- 8 The search for a clear vision -- Afterword: On exiles and alternatives -- Bibliography
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [259]-272
