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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Ayman A. El-DesoukyEAN: 9781137392435COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 354 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-11-14CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle EasternWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Middle East, Africa, Literature: history and criticism, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Terrorism, armed struggle
“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.” (Adélie Chevée, Contemporary Levant, Vol 2 (2), October, 2017)
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.
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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Ayman A. El-DesoukyEAN: 9781137392435COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 354 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-11-14CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle EasternWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Middle East, Africa, Literature: history and criticism, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Terrorism, armed struggle
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.
