LEADER 04057nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910790674403321 005 20211005214608.0 010 $a0-8232-5177-2 010 $a0-8232-5299-X 010 $a0-8232-5227-2 010 $a0-8232-5228-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823252282 035 $a(CKB)2550000001123602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239829 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173396 035 $a(OCoLC)859536488 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22187 035 $a(DE-B1597)555019 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823252282 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239829 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10721950 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704612 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001123602 100 $a20130409d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlexandrian cosmopolitanism$b[electronic resource] $ean archive /$fHala Halim 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $axviii, 459 p 311 $a0-8232-5176-4 311 $a1-299-94068-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes -- $tChapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity -- $tChapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism -- $tChapter Four. ?Polypolis? and Levantine Camp -- $tEpilogue/Prologue -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aInterrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city?s culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity.Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers?C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell?who she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers? representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anticolonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas, one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers? and filmmakers? engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with theEuropean representations. 606 $aCosmopolitanism in literature 606 $aEuropean literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEuropean literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAlexandria (Egypt)$xIn literature 610 $aBernard de Zogheb. 610 $aC.P. Cavafy. 610 $aCosmopolitanism. 610 $aE.M. Forster. 610 $aImperialism. 610 $aLawrence Durrell. 610 $aMediterranean. 610 $aalexandria. 610 $aegypt. 615 0$aCosmopolitanism in literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.93358621 700 $aHalim$b Hala$01489518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790674403321 996 $aAlexandrian cosmopolitanism$93710243 997 $aUNINA