Laugh like an Egyptian : : Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel / / Cristina Dozio.
Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language Play and Creativity ,
5 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Note on transliteration
- Bibliographic reference for the novels
- Introduction
- 1 A laughable tradition
- 2 Masters of humour
- 3 Reversed epics. Nuʿmān, the village antihero
- 4 Ibn Shalabī, a (pre-)modern trickster
- 5 Laughing together at the hash den
- 6 Laughing together at migration
- 7 A comparative look
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Websites and videos
- Index