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Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East / by Y. Noorani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noorani, Yaseen, 1966-
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, 2945-6649
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- World history.
- Social history.
- History, Modern.
- Cultural History.
- History of the Middle East.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Social History.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural History.
- History of the Middle East.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Social History.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 245 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is a study of the nature and origin of nationality and modern social ideals in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Bringing together writings on political and social reform with literary works, Noorani challenges dominant assumptions about the emergence of modernity. It shows that while nationalist, liberal, and democratic ideals emerged in the Middle East under European influence, these ideals were nevertheless created out of existing cultural values by reformers and intellectuals. The central element of this process, the book argues, was the transformation of virtue into nationality.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sovereign Virtue and the Emergence of Nationality; 2 The Death of the Hero and the Birth of Bourgeois Class Status; 3 Order, Agency, and the Economy of Desire: Islamic Reformism and Arab Nationalism; 4 The Moral Transformation of Femininity and the Rise of the Public-Private Distinction in Colonial Egypt; 5 Fiction, Hegemony, and Aesthetic Citizenship; 6 Excess, Rebellion, and Revolution: Egyptian Modernity in the Trilogy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612909382
- 9781282909380
- 128290938X
- 9780230106437
- 0230106439
- OCLC:
- 649366335
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