02578nam 2200445 450 991049373560332120230512081146.010.1515/9783110726305(CKB)5590000000537466(NjHacI)995590000000537466(EXLCZ)99559000000053746620230512d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShared Margins an Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution /Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad ShehataBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2021]©20211 online resource (xv, 272 pages) illustrationsZMO-Studien3-11-072636-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index.Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.Studien (Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany))Shared Margins Authors, EnglishEgyptian literatureHistory and criticismAuthors, English.Egyptian literatureHistory and criticism.893.1Schielke Joska Samuli1096692Shehata Mukhtar SaadNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910493735603321Shared Margins3363252UNINA