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The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

By Samah Selim

The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 General education

The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

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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 20th 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2004-05-01
Publication Date:
2004-04-01
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415318378
ISBN13:
9780415318372
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
497 g
Height:
14.5 cm
Width:
22.2 cm
Thickness:
1.9 cm
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