03636nam 22005655 450 99643304370331620231110223855.03-11-072630-010.1515/9783110726305(CKB)5590000000533511(DE-B1597)571886(DE-B1597)9783110726305EBL7014832(AU-PeEL)EBL7014832(MiAaPQ)EBC7014832(EXLCZ)99559000000053351120210729h20212021 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShared Margins An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution /Samuli Schielke, Mukhtar Saad ShehataBerlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]©20211 online resource (XVI, 272 p.)ZMO-Studien ;41Description based upon print version of record.3-11-072677-7 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- On names, pronouns, and spelling -- List of illustrations -- Map of Alexandria -- Introduction: Where is Literature? -- Part I: About writing -- 1 Why write, and why not stop? -- 2 Infrastructures of imagination -- 3 The writing of lives -- Part II: Writing about -- 4 Can poetry change the world? -- 5 Where is Alexandria? -- 6 Writing on walls -- 7 Is prose poetry a conspiracy against the Noble Qurʾan? -- 8 The search for a clear vision -- Afterword: On exiles and alternatives -- BibliographyShared 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.ZMO-Studien SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic StudiesbisacshAlexandria.Egypt.anthropology.literary circles.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies.290Schielke Samuli, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1217094Saad Shehata Mukhtar, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbSchielke Samuli, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbShehata Mukhtar Saad, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autLeibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orientfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996433043703316Shared Margins2814513UNISA