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 NewSobre o autor
Boutheina Khaldi is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 237 ● ISBN 9781137106667 ● Tamanho do arquivo 1.6 MB ● Editora Palgrave Macmillan US ● Cidade New York ● País US ● Publicado 2012 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 2646912 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social