Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public

ISBN-13: 9781138327627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str.

May Hawas

Opis

This book engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Love in the Time of World Crises: Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club  2. "Moving Like Rivers Through Us": Individual and Global Landscapes in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage  3. The Case of the Strange Familiarity Between Andrea Camilleri and Tawfik al-Hakim  4. Circumnavigating the Canon: Amitav Ghosh’s Antique Land and the Long Tenth Century  Conclusion: World Literature: Negotiation and Equilibrium

O autorze

Dr. May Hawas is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo.