1960s
20th-century fiction
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Egypt
Egyptian fiction
Egyptian literature
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Middle Eastern literature
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North African literature
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postcolonial literature
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SN=Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
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twentieth-century literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781474427647
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt. Combining a sociological approach to literature with detailed close readings, Yasmine Ramadan explores the spatial representations that embodied this shift within the Egyptian literary scene and the disappearance of an idealized nation in the Egyptian novel. This study provides a robust examination of the emergence and establishment of some of the most significant writers in modern Egyptian literature, and their influence across six decades, while also tracing the social, economic, political and aesthetic changes that marked this period in Egypt’s contemporary history.
Yasmine Ramadan is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Director of the Arabic Program at the University of Iowa. She has contributed articles, chapters and reviews to Journal of Arabic Literature, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics and Arab Studies Journal.
