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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459251803321

Autore

Mehrez Samia

Titolo

Egypt's Culture Wars [[electronic resource] ] : Politics and Practice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, 2008

ISBN

1-61797-039-5

1-936190-67-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

962.05/5

Soggetti

Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism

Arts -- Political aspects -- Egypt

Arts, Egyptian -- 20th century

Culture conflict -- Egypt

Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century

Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 21st century

Politics and culture -- Egypt

Politics and literature -- Egypt

Electronic books.

Egypt Intellectual life 20th century

Egypt Intellectual life 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Plates""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Prologue""; ""Part I Inside the literary establishment""; ""1 Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf""; ""2 Children of our alley""; ""3 The big one""; ""4 The value of freedom""; ""Part II Remaking culture""; ""5 Lost in globalization""; ""6 Translating gender between the local and the global1""; ""7 Where have all the families gone?""; ""8 From the hara to the imara""; ""Part III The bounds of change""; ""9 Taking the soap out of the opera""; ""10 The new kid on the block""; ""11 Found in Cairo""; ""12 Literature and literalism""

""Epilogue""""Appendices""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This work presents research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the 21st century. It deconstructs the boundaries between



'high' and 'low' culture, drawing on tools in cultural studies, translation studies, and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts.