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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ayman Ahmed El-DesoukyPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Pivot Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9781137392435ISBN 10: 1137392436 Pages: 142 Publication Date: 14 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe 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. (Adelie Chevee, Contemporary Levant, Vol 2 (2), October, 2017) Author InformationAyman 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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