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Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture - Amaara and the 2011 Revolution

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Zusatztext "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) Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency PART I: THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE QUEST FOR AM?RA 1. Am?ra: Concept, Cultural Practice and Aesthetic 2. Signature or Cartouche? Dilemmas of the Egyptian Intellectual PART II: THE PEOPLE AND THE AM?RA OF CONNECTIVE AGENCY 3. The People Already Know: Positionality of the Intellectual, Connective Agency and Cultural Memory 4. The Am?ra on the Square: Some Reflections Post 25 January 2011 Postscript: I?n? al-ma?riyy?n and al-sha?b: The Untranslatabilities of Conceptual Languages Bibliography Index ?...

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency PART I: THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE QUEST FOR AM?RA 1. Am?ra: Concept, Cultural Practice and Aesthetic 2. Signature or Cartouche? Dilemmas of the Egyptian Intellectual PART II: THE PEOPLE AND THE AM?RA OF CONNECTIVE AGENCY 3. The People Already Know: Positionality of the Intellectual, Connective Agency and Cultural Memory 4. The Am?ra on the Square: Some Reflections Post 25 January 2011 Postscript: I?n? al-ma?riyy?n and al-sha?b: The Untranslatabilities of Conceptual Languages Bibliography Index ?

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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)

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