Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
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A01=Samah Selim
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Abd Al Rahman Al Sharqawi
Ahmad Lutfi Al Sayyid
Arabic
Arabic Language
Arabic literary criticism
Arabic Short Story
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class and language politics
Colloquial Egyptian Arabic
Colonial Administration
Committed Realism
Contemporary Egyptian History
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Farah Antun
haqqi
haykal
husayn
Isa Ibn Hisham
Late Nineteenth Century Drama
Lutfi Al Sayyid
mahmud
Modern Arabic Fiction
Modern Arabic Literature
muhammad
Muhammad Husayn Haykal
nationalism discourse analysis
Nationalist Epistemologies
Papers Man
peasant representation literature
rahman
realism in Middle Eastern fiction
rural modernity studies
Sabry Hafez
sharqawi
Taha Husayn
taymur
village novel narrative structure
yahya
Yahya Haqqi
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415595858
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Samah Selim is professor of modern Arabic Literature at Princeton University. Her main research interests are 19th and 20th century fiction in Egypt and the Levant.
