LEADER 02578nam 2200445 450 001 9910493735603321 005 20230512081146.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110726305 035 $a(CKB)5590000000537466 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000537466 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000537466 100 $a20230512d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aShared Margins $ean Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution /$fSamuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad Shehata 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aZMO-Studien 311 $a3-11-072636-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index. 330 $aShared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity. 410 0$aStudien (Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany)) 517 $aShared Margins 606 $aAuthors, English 606 $aEgyptian literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAuthors, English. 615 0$aEgyptian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a893.1 700 $aSchielke$b Joska Samuli$01096692 702 $aShehata$b Mukhtar Saad 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493735603321 996 $aShared Margins$93363252 997 $aUNINA