| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 231 pages). |
|
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
|
|
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Space and the sixties -- Cairo : Urban space, surveillance, and the state -- Of other cities -- Re-imagining the rural : The mystical and the mythical -- The politics and economics of exile -- Beyond the sixties -- Appendix. |
| Summary |
In 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt. Combining a sociological approach to literature with detailed close readings, Yasmine Ramadan explores the spatial representations that embodied this shift within the Egyptian literary scene and the disappearance of an idealized nation in the Egyptian novel. This study provides a robust examination of the emergence and establishment of some of the most significant writers in modern Egyptian literature, and their influence across six decades, while also tracing the social, economic, political and aesthetic changes that marked this period in Egypt's contemporary history.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Yasmine Ramadan is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Director of the Arabic Program at the University of Iowa. She has contributed articles, chapters and reviews to Journal of Arabic Literature, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics and Arab Studies Journal. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabic fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
|
|
Arabic fiction. |
|
Egypt. |
|
Space in literature.
|
|
Space in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Literary criticism.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
Literary criticism.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramadan, Yasmine. Space in modern Egyptian fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020 1474427642 (OCoLC)1086484968 |
| ISBN |
1474427669 (webready PDF) |
|
9781474427678 (epub) |
|
1474427677 (epub) |
|
9781474427661 (electronic book) |
|
9781474427647 (hardback) |
|
1474427642 |
|
