The barber of Damascus : nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / / Dana Sajdi.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 293 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long 18th-century
- A barber at the gate : a social and intellectual biography
- "Cheap" monumentality : the nouveau literates and their texts
- Authority and history : the genealogy of the Levantine 18th-century contemporary chronicle
- A room of his own : the "history" of the barber of Damascus
- Cutting the barber's tale : the afterlives of a history
- Conclusion : from nouveau literacy to print journalism.