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The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

"This book places the field of modern Arabic literature studies in the context of contemporary debates in the humanities about the relationship between narrative, history and ideology. In this sense, it addresses pressing issues raised by literary theory, literary history and postcolonial studies, and grounds these broader discussions in a study of a particular narrative genre - the novel - as it has been constructed and produced over a century in a local/global context. The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth-century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed bifurcated narrative and social geography are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context, rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history, as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre."--BOOK JACKET.

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RoutledgeCurzon
Language
English
Pages
267

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Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
The novel and the rural imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, RoutledgeCurzon
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English

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Table of Contents

1. The garrulous peasant : Zaqub Sannu, Abdullah al-Nadim and the construction of the fallah in early drama and dialogue
2. Novels and nations
3. Foundations : pastoral and anti-pastoral
4. The politics of reality : realism, neo-realism and the village novel
5. The land
6. The exiled son
7. The storyteller.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Series
RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
892.7/3509321734
Library of Congress
PJ7577 .S445 2004, PJ7577.S445 2004, PJ7577 .S445 2004eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3678840M
ISBN 10
0415318378
LCCN
2003020105
OCLC/WorldCat
56360021, 53013113
Library Thing
6316644
Goodreads
1778805

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