The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985

ISBN-13: 9780415595858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 268 str.

Samah Selim;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This study focuses on the relationship between the Egyptian village as a discursive construct, and the novel genre as it emerged and developed in Egypt from the first decades of the century until its end.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Peasant and Modern Narrative in Egypt  1. The Garrulous Peasant: Za'qub Sannu', Addullah 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  Conclusion

O autorze

Samah Selim is professor of modern Arabic Literature at Princeton University. Her main research interests are 19th and 20th century fiction in Egypt and the Levant.