Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

ISBN-13: 9781474415415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Mary Youssef

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction: Historical Transformations: Framing a New Consciousness in the Contemporary Egyptian Nove; 1. History and Representation of Otherness in ᶜAli Idris’s al-Nubi and Bahaᵓ Tahir’s Wahat al-ghurub; 2. Reading Cosmopolitanism in Yusuf Zaydan’s Azazeel and Muᶜtazz Futayha’s Akhir yahud al-iskandariyya; 3.The Irrecuperable Heterogeneity of the Present in ᶜAlaᵓ al-Aswani’s The Yacoubian Building and Chicago; 4. Heart Deserts, Memory and Myth between Life and Death in Asharaf al-Khumaysi’s Manafi al-rabb and Miral al-Tahawi’s The Tent; Epilogue: New Directions.