Research Catalog

Title

Egypt's culture wars : politics and practice / Samia Mehrez.

Author

Mehrez, Samia.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Description

xv, 335 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between "high" and "low" culture, drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyse debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt." "Egypt's Culture Wars is a valuable contribution to the often neglected and ignored subject of cultural politics and battles for representation in Egypt. Detailed and insightful, this innovative interdisciplinary volume allows us to understand what has been happening in the sphere of public debate in Egypt. As such, it will be of interest to scholars and students from the literary field, cultural studies, political science, Middle East studies, sociology and gender studies."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13.

Subject

• Politics and culture > Egypt
• Culture conflict > Egypt
• Arabic literature > Egypt > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > Egypt
• Arts > Political aspects > Egypt
• Arts, Egyptian > 20th century
• Egypt > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Egypt > Intellectual life > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-324) and index.

Contents

Prologue: take them out of the ball game -- Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered.

Call Number

JFE 16-2627

ISBN

• 9780415428972
• 0415428971
• 9780203929001
• 0203929004
• 0415666872
• 9780415666879

LCCN

2007039072

OCLC

173299296

Author

Mehrez, Samia.

Title

Egypt's culture wars : politics and practice / Samia Mehrez.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 13.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-324) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 16-2627