Samia Mehrez

Egypt's Culture Wars

Politics and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780415428972
• ISBN-10: 0415428971
• Artikelnr.: 23828339

Autorenporträt

Samia Mehrez is Associate Professor at the Department of Arabic Studies, American University in Cairo, Egpyt.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Prologue: Take Them Out of the Ball Game: Egyptian Cultural
Players in Crisis Part 1: Inside the Literary Establishment: Power
Struggles and Dreams of Autonomy 1. Dr. Ramzi and Mr. Sharaf: Sonallah
Ibrahim and the Duplicity of the Literary Field 2. Children of Our Alley:
The AUC Naguib Mahfouz Award and the Egyptian Cultural Field 3. The Big
One: The Intellectual and the Political in Modern Egyptian Literature 4.
The Value of Freedom: The Writer vs. the Literary Establishment Part 2:
Remaking Culture: Emerging Institutions, Discourses, Icons and Metaphors
5. Lost in Globalization: Education and the Stranded Egyptian Élite 6.
Translating Gender between the Local and the Global 7. Where Have All the
Families Gone: Egyptian Literary Texts of the Nineties 8. From the hara to
the imara: Emerging Urban Metaphors in Contemporary Texts on Cairo Part 3:
The Bounds of Change: State, Street, and Self Censorship 9. Taking the Soap
out of the Opera: The Case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family 10. The New Kid on the
Block: Bahibb issima (I love cinema) and the Emergence of the Coptic
Community in the Egyptian Public Sphere 11. Found in Cairo: The Limits of
Representation in the Visual Field 12. Literature and Literalism: Al-Khubz
Al-Hafi Crisis Reconsidered