Caroline Seymour-Jorn

Creating Spaces of Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of how young artists imagine and maintain hope in post-revolutionary Egypt Creating Spaces of Hope explores some of the newest, most dynamic creativity emerging from young artists in Egypt and the way in which these artists engage, contest, and struggle with the social and political landscape of post-revolutionary Egypt. How have different types of artistsstudio artists, graffiti artists, musicians and writersresponded personally and artistically to the various stages of political transformation in Egypt since the January 25 revolution? What has the political or social role of art been in these periods of transition and uncertainty? What are the aesthetic shifts and stylistic transformations present in the contemporary Egyptian art world? Based on personal interviews with artists over many years of research in Cairo, Caroline Seymour-Jorn moves beyond current understandings of creative work primarily as a form of resistance or political commentary, providing a more nuanced analysis of creative production in the Arab world. She argues that in more recent years these young artists have turned their creative focus increasingly inward, to examine issues having to do with personal relationships, belonging and inclusion, and maintaining hope in harsh social, political and economic circumstances. She shows how Egyptian artists are constructing spaces of hope that emerge as their art or writing becomes a conduit for broader discussion of social, political, personal, and existential ideas, thereby forging alternative perspectives on Egyptian society, its place in the region and in the larger global context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781649030115
• Artikelnr.: 60352090

Autorenporträt

Caroline Seymour-Jorn is associate professor of comparative literature and Arabic translation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why This Book?
The Social and Political Context
Cairo's Artistic and Literary Worlds
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Creativity
Chapter 1: Egypt's Choir Project: Singing and Performing Spaces of Hope
Introduction
An Introductory Sketch: The Choir Project
Performing the Future
The "No Comment Choir": The First Anniversary of the Revolution
Theatrical Moves: Zobaida
Participant Perspectives
Summary
Chapter 2: Studio Art in the Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary City
Artistic Contexts
Hany Rashed: Explorations in the Surreal
Bassem Yousri: The Absurd in Revolution, Aesthetics, and Interpersonal
Understanding Yasmine ElMeleegy: Healing Private and Public Bodies
Summary
Chapter 3: Writing the New Imagination: Exploring the Real in the Unreal
Mennat Allah Samy: A Personal Sketch
Hani Abdel Mourid: Myth, Metafiction, and Magical Realism in Ana al-'alam
(I Am the World)
Summary
Chapter 4: Faces of the Past and the Future: Street Art in the
Postrevolutionary City
The Egyptian Citizen
Wall Context: Policeman by Salma Samy
Ammar Abo Bakr's Portrait of Hisham Rizq
Wall Context: The King Is Back
Pharaonism in Street Art
Summary
Chapter 5: Conclusion
The Body
Metanarrative and Metafictional Elements
Looking Inward
Spaces of Hope
Notes
Bibliography