- Additional Authors
- Faraj, Alfrid
- Description
- xxx, 321 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Middle East literature in translation
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.
- "Works by Alfred Farag": p. 279-283.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Contents
- Poetics -- Alfred Farag and political commitment -- Alfred Farag's drama and the politics of identity -- Metadrama: the poetics of disguise -- The theater -- The sixties: Egyptian theater in search of an identity -- The seventies: dramatic self-consciousness and drama against itself -- The seventies: self-conscious characters and places of danger -- Conclusion: Farag's metadrama, from formalism to functionality -- The plays -- The visitor -- The peephole -- The stranger -- The Egyptian hay circle -- The last walk: a monologue.
- Call Number
- MWES (Farag, A.) 09-146
- ISBN
- 9780815631637 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0815631634 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008033399
- OCLC
- 225870844
- Author
Amin, Dina A.
- Title
Alfred Farag and Egyptian theater : the poetics of disguise, with four short plays and a monologue / Dina A. Amin ; with a foreword by Roger Allen.
- Imprint
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Series
Middle East literature in translation
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.
"Works by Alfred Farag": p. 279-283.
- Language
Translated from the Arabic.
- Added Author
Faraj, Alfrid. Plays. Selections. English.
- Research Call Number
MWES (Farag, A.) 09-146