Marketplaces of the modern : Egypt as marketplace in twentieth-century Anglo-Egyptian literature / Nesrine Chahine.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Chahine, Nesrine, author.

Contributor:

Esty, Joshua, 1967- degree supervisor.

Fakhreddine, Huda, degree committee member.

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- degree committee member.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Comparative literature and literary theory.

Comparative literature and literary theory--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Comparative literature and literary theory.

Comparative literature and literary theory--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

v, 287 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm

Production:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

Summary:

Marketplaces of the Modern examines representations of Egypt as a marketplace in Egyptian and Anglophone literature, arguing that unresolved narrative tensions over the commodification of laboring bodies, cultural artifacts, and raw goods reflect the troubled history of capitalist imperialism in the twentieth century. Attending to aestheticizations of Egypt's productive powers, the project tracks a shift from an earlier discourse that saw Egypt as a marketplace for commodities to a concern with the commodification of culture later in the century. It engages debates on transnationalism and globalization emphasizing the necessity of recuperating the material dimensions of culture while contributing to studies of Arabic and "Postcolonial" literatures by examining under-represented archives of South-South solidarity.

Notes:

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.

Department: Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Supervisor: Jed Esty.

Includes bibliographical references.