Female Voices and Egyptian Independence
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1919 Egyptian Revolution
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Author_Rania M. Mahmoud
Bahaa Taher
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comparative literary studies
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feminism
Jon Wilcox
Lawrence Durrell
marginalized voices
Mountolive
Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street
Sunset Oasis
The Guns of El Kebir
Urabi Revolution
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- ISBN 9780755651009
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence. Reading the novels against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves. Using a comparative lens, the study foregrounds the ways in which the authors confirm, critique, rewrite/revise, or reject developmental narratives. Female Voices and Egyptian Independence pays particular attention to women that range from the uneducated black slave, to the uneducated rural Siwan woman with artistic talent, to the wealthy cultured Coptic housewife, to the rising late nineteenth-century British female professional, and finally to the eclipsed twentieth-century Egyptian female national intellectual, all of whom play crucial roles in the journeys of the respective male protagonists, and by extension, the Egyptian national project.
Rania M. Mahmoud is Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Arkansas, USA. Her writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures and Arab Studies Quarterly.
