Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen

ISBN-13: 9780748641321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 248 str.

Paul Starkey

Opis

This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Background and Context; 2. Rebel with a Pen; 3. Cairo Prison: Tilka al-ra?iha (1966); 4. Michelangelo and the Dam: Najmat Aghustus (1974); 5. CocaColaland: al-Lajna (1981); 6. War in Lebanon: Bayrut Bayrut (1984); 7. Consumer Society: Dhat (1994); 8. Prison of Dishonour: Sharaf (1997); 9. Widening Horizons (1): Sex, Memory and Revolution: Warda (2000); 10. Widening Horizons (2): In the Land of the Capitalists: Amrikanli (2003); 11. Return to Childhood: al-Talassus (2007); 12. The French Connection: al-?Amama wa-al-Qubba?a (2008) and al-Qanun al-Faransi (2008); 13. Filling a Gap: al-Jalid (2011); 14. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.