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Autore: | Selim Samah |
Titolo: | The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 / / Samah Selim |
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 |
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