The Intellectual And The People In Egyptian Literature And Culture Hardcover
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Ayman A. El-Desouky
Book Description
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra - the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency - to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture.
ISBN-10
1137392436
ISBN-13
9781137392435
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
14 Nov 2014
About the Author
Ayman A. El-Desouky is Senior Lecturer in Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature and Founding Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS, 2009-2012) at SOAS, University of London, UK. He has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin (1993-1995), the Johns Hopkins University (1995-1996) and at Harvard University (1996-2002) before he moved to London. He is currently preparing a book-length study on Figuring the Sacred in the Modern Arabic Novel.
Editorial Review
The Intellectual and the People is a rich and successful effort at thinking about the aesthetics of radical politics in Egyptian literature and culture. ... It is also a call for and a most welcome example of how to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion with comparative literature and political theory. (Adelie Chevee, Contemporary Levant, Vol 2 (2), October, 2017)