{"product_id":"the-novel-and-the-rural-imaginary-in-egypt-1880-1985-routledge-studies-in-middle-eastern-literatures-0415318378","title":"The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0415318378\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Selim, Samah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862666608928,"sku":"NEW0415318378","price":268.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41JVv7IlCML.jpg?v=1781634042","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-novel-and-the-rural-imaginary-in-egypt-1880-1985-routledge-studies-in-middle-eastern-literatures-0415318378","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}