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Egypt's culture wars : politics and practice / Samia Mehrez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mehrez, Samia.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13.
- Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture--Egypt.
- Politics and culture.
- Culture conflict--Egypt.
- Culture conflict.
- Arabic literature--Egypt--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature.
- Politics and literature--Egypt.
- Politics and literature.
- Arts--Political aspects--Egypt.
- Arts.
- Arts, Egyptian--20th century.
- Arts, Egyptian.
- Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Intellectual life--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue: Take them out of the ball game – Egypt's cultural players in crisis; Part I: Inside the literary establishment; 1 Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field; 2 Children of our alley: The AUC Naguib Mahfouz Award and the Egyptian literary field; 3 The big one: The intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literature; 4 The value of freedom: The writer against the establishment; Part II: Remaking culture
- 5 Lost in globalization: Education and the stranded Egyptian elite6 Translating gender between the local and the global; 7 Where have all the families gone?: Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s; 8 From the hara to the imara: Emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo; Part III: The bounds of change; 9 Taking the soap out of the opera: The case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family; 10 The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergen
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-10952-0
- 1-281-26004-5
- 9786611260040
- 0-203-92900-4
- 9780203929001
- OCLC:
- 335590038
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