Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah’s literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt’s Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women’s studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity.
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The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon’s Expedition to Mayy Ziyadah’s Salon The Salon as a Public Sphere They Discuss The Letter as Annex Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the NewAbout the author
Boutheina Khaldi is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 237 ● ISBN 9781137106667 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2646912 ● Copy protection Social DRM