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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel; Copyright; 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 ʿAli Idris's al-Nubi and Bahaʼ 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 ʿAlaʼ al-Aswani's The Yacoubian Building and Chicago |
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4 Heart Deserts: Memory and Myth between Life and Death in Asharaf al-Khumaysi's Manafi al-rabb and Miral al-Tahawi's The TentEpilogue: New Directions; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Through a robust analysis of several new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Egypt -- Social conditions.
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Egypt. |
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Social conditions. |
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Egyptian fiction.
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Egyptian fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474415415 9781474415415 (OCoLC)1012708244 |
| ISBN |
9781474415422 (electronic book) |
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1474415423 (electronic book) |
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1474415415 |
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9781474415415 |
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9781474415439 (epub) |
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