The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 - 9780415595858
Un libro in lingua di Samah Selim edito da Taylor & Francis, 2010
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The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
- Sottotitolo: 1880-1985
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Samah Selim
- Editore: Taylor & Francis
- Collana: Taylor & Francis (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 06 Ottobre '10
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Arabic fiction 19th century History and criticism Arabic fiction 20th century History and criticism Country life in literature
- EAN-13: 9780415595858