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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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency
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The Intellectual and the Quest for Amāra
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Front Matter
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The People and the Amāra of Connective Agency
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution
Authors: Ayman A. El-Desouky
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392442
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39243-5Published: 14 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39244-2Published: 13 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 142
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Middle Eastern Literature, Political Science, African Literature, Terrorism and Political Violence, Social Sciences, general