Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

Politics, Poetics and Modernity

Lorenzo Casini (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2024
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4627-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of ‘the West’, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini here traces the way that imaginaries and representations of the West became bound up with the notions of modernity and national identity with which Egyptian novelists grappled, from the works of Tawfiq al-Hakim to those of Taha Husayn. The book also explores the trope of the European woman as an embodiment of the free, modern, seductive West as an essential facet of Occidentalism in this formative period.

The second part of the book examines the ways in which later novelists —from Latifa al-Zayyat and Yusuf Idris, to Radwa Ashur and Ahdaf Soueif— subverted dominant Occidentalist themes as a way of re-examining concepts of personal, political, and national identity. The author argues that these later novelists reacted to the changing political circumstances in Egypt, from Nasser’s rule and the slide to authoritarianism to the 2011 Revolution, to envisage different kinds of Egyptian political community with a more complicated and less binary relationship with the imagined West.

Lorenzo Casini is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the co- author of Fuori degli argini (2003) and Modernità arabe (2012) and the co-editor of Minnena (2020) and Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space (2022).

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1 Setting the Ideological Framework. The Modernist Project of Muhammad Husayn Haykal

Chapter 2 Writing the Nation: Occidentalism, the Novel, and the National Allegory

Chapter 3 The Emergence of the European Woman Trope (1935-1945)

Chapter 4 De-othering Europe: the European Woman Trope from Nasir to the Arab Spring

Chapter 5 Beyond the National Allegory: Occidentalism and Political Agency at the Turn of the Millenium

Conclusions
References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7556-4627-4 / 0755646274
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4627-2 / 9780755646272
Zustand	Neuware