Blogging from Egypt : : Digital Literature, 2005-2016 / / Teresa Pepe.
Explores blogs as a new form of literature emerging in Egypt during the rise of political protests Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. This resulted in the emergence of a new li...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: Egyptian Blogs Between Fiction and Autobiography
- 1 Arabic Literature Goes Digital
- 2 The Paratext of Egyptian Blogs
- 3 Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Style
- 4 When Writers Activate Readers
- 5 Bytes of Freedom: Fictionalised Bodies in the Egyptian Blogosphere
- 6 Blogging a Revolution: From Utopia to Dystopia
- Conclusion: A New Literary Genre and a Social Uprising
- Works Cited
- Index