03090oam 2200673I 450 991045111670332120200520144314.00-203-34665-31-134-36775-91-280-02616-20-203-61144-610.4324/9780203611449 (CKB)1000000000255058(EBL)200423(OCoLC)475910278(SSID)ssj0000304619(PQKBManifestationID)11224235(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304619(PQKBWorkID)10285111(PQKB)10787112(MiAaPQ)EBC200423(Au-PeEL)EBL200423(CaPaEBR)ebr10098885(CaONFJC)MIL2616(OCoLC)56360021(EXLCZ)99100000000025505820180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrThe novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 /Samah SelimNew York :RoutledgeCurzon,2004.1 online resource (280 pages)RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-59585-1 0-415-31837-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.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.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 dislocatioRoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures.Arabic fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismArabic fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCountry life in literatureElectronic books.Arabic fictionHistory and criticism.Arabic fictionHistory and criticism.Country life in literature.892.7/350932173418.74bclSelim Samah.948684FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910451116703321The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-19852144496UNINA