Sonallah Ibrahim : rebel with a pen / Paul Starkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starkey, Paul, 1947- author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh--Criticism and interpretation.

Ibrāhīm, Ṣunʻ Allāh.

Arabic literature--Egypt--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction: Background and Context

2. Rebel with a Pen

3. Cairo Prison: Tilka al-raʾiha (1966)

4. Michelangelo and the Dam: Najmat Aghustus (1974)

5. CocaColaland: al-Lajna (1981)

6. War in Lebanon: Bayrut, Bayrut (1984)

7. Consumer Society: Dhat (1992)

8. Prison of Dishonour: Sharaf (1997)

9. Widening Horizons (1): Sex, Memory and Revolution: Warda (2000)

10. Widening Horizons (2): In the Land of the Capitalists: Amrikanli (Amri Kan Li) (2003)

11. Return to Childhood: al-Talassus (2007)

12. The French Connection: al-ʿImama wa-al-Qubbaʿa (2008) and al-Qanun al-Faransi (2008)

13. Filling a Gap: al-Jalid (2011)

14. Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-0579-7

OCLC:

1301548120