LEADER 03117nam 22006974a 450 001 9910807648503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-36774-0 010 $a0-203-34665-3 010 $a1-134-36775-9 010 $a1-280-02616-2 010 $a0-203-61144-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203611449 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255058 035 $a(EBL)200423 035 $a(OCoLC)475910278 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000304619 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224235 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304619 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285111 035 $a(PQKB)10787112 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200423 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10098885 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL2616 035 $a(OCoLC)56360021 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255058 100 $a20030910d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 /$fSamah Selim 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cRoutledgeCurzon$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-59585-1 311 $a0-415-31837-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index. 327 $a1. The garrulous peasant : Yaqub Sannu, Abdallah 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. 330 $aThe book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocatio 410 0$aRoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures. 606 $aArabic fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArabic fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCountry life in literature 615 0$aArabic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArabic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCountry life in literature. 676 $a892.7/3509321734 686 $a18.74$2bcl 700 $aSelim$b Samah$0948684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807648503321 996 $aThe novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985$94019732 997 $aUNINA