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Author Khalifah, Omar, author.

Title Nasser in the Egyptian imaginary / Omar Khalifah.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-238) and index.
Summary "The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser"--Back cover.
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Subject Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970 -- In motion pictures.
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970.
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970 -- In literature.
Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature.
Egypt.
Motion pictures -- Egypt -- History.
Motion pictures.
History.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Khalifah, Omar. Nasser in the Egyptian imaginary. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 1474410197 (OCoLC)966562305
ISBN 9781474410205 (electronic book)
1474410200 (electronic book)
1474410197
9781474410199
9781474410212 (ePub)