Cartooning for a modern Egypt / / Keren Zdafee.

• Superior document: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World; volume13
• VerfasserIn: Zdafee, Keren,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World; volume13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages).

The Egyptian caricature is generally studied as part of Egyptian mass culture, and mainly discussed in the context of Egypt's anti-colonial resistance to British foreign rule, as part of the forging of a “national style". In Cartooning for a Modern Egypt, Keren Zdafee foregrounds the role that Egypt’s foreign-local entrepreneurs and caricaturists played in formulating and constructing the modern Egyptian caricature of the interwar years, that was designated for, and reflected, a colonial and cosmopolitan culture of a few. Keren Zdafee illustrates how Egyptian foreign-local caricaturists envisioned and evaluated the past, present, and future of Egyptian society, in the context of Cairo's colonial cosmopolitanism, by adopting a theoretical, semiotic, and historical approach.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- On Translating Caricatures -- A Note on Transliterations -- Introduction -- Cairo’s Colonial Cosmopolitanism -- Journals, Images, Counter-Images, and Readers -- Caricature as Product -- The Average Egyptian; the Ideal Egyptian -- The Good, the Bad, and the Evil -- Images of the Other? -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.