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UNINA9910451116703321 |
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Autore |
Selim Samah |
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Titolo |
The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 / / Samah Selim |
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New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004 |
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0-203-34665-3 |
1-134-36775-9 |
1-280-02616-2 |
0-203-61144-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Collana |
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RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literature |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Arabic fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Country life in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The garrulous peasant : Yaʻqub Sannuʻ, ʻAbdallah al-Nadim and the construction of the fallah in early drama and dialogue -- 2. Novels and nations -- 3. Foundations : pastoral and anti-pastoral -- 4. The politics of reality : realism, neo-realism and the village novel -- 5. The land -- 6. The exiled son -- 7. The storyteller. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 dislocatio |
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