Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism : : An Archive /

Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism : : An Archive / / Hala Halim.

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Interrogating 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 simultaneous...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
VerfasserIn:
Halim, Hala,
MitwirkendeR:
Cavafy, C. P.,
Durrell, Lawrence,
Forster, E. M.,
Zogheb, Bernard de,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes
  • Chapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity
  • Chapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism
  • Chapter Four. “Polypolis” and Levantine Camp
  • Epilogue/Prologue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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