The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture

Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution

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Kenneth A. Loparo

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

November 14th, 2014

Author

Kenneth A. Loparo

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XVI, 142 p.

Pages

142

Dimensions

140x216x13

ISBN-13

9781137392435

Product ID

22857070

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