Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel / / Mary Youssef.
Identifies an emerging genre within the contemporary Egyptian novel that reflects a new consciousnessIncludes case studies of the novels of 8 authors: Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Ṭahir, ᶜAlaᵓ al-Aswani, Yusuf Zaydan, Muᶜtazz Futayha, Ashraf al-Khumaysi and Miral al-TahawiShows how these novels have taken on a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: Historical Transformations: Framing a New Consciousness in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel
- 1 History and Representations of Otherness in Idris ʿAli’s al-Nubi and Bahaʾ Tahir’s Sunset Oasis
- 2 Reading Cosmopolitanism in Yusuf Zaydan’s Azazeel and Muʿtazz Futayha’s Akhir yahud al-iskandariyya
- 3 The Irrecuperable Heterogeneity of the Present in ʿAlaʾ al-Aswani’s The Yacoubian Building and Chicago
- 4 Heart Deserts: Memory and Myth between Life and Death in Asharaf al-Khumaysi’s Manafi al-rabb and Miral al-Tahawi’s The Tent
- Epilogue: New Directions
- Bibliography
- Index