The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 / / Samah Selim

• Autore: Selim Samah
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Disciplina: 892.7/3509321734
• Soggetto topico: Arabic fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Country life in literature
• Classificazione: 18.74
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The garrulous peasant : Yaʻqub Sannuʻ, ʻAbdallah 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
• ISBN: 1-134-36774-0; 0-203-34665-3; 1-134-36775-9; 1-280-02616-2; 0-203-61144-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783951903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures.