Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
Seiten
2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1019-9 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1019-9 (ISBN)
Traces, contextualizes, and analyses the making of the late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s image(s) in creative productions including novels, short stories, autobiographies and film.
The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah’s analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.
The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah’s analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.
Omar Khalifah is assistant professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. In addition to modern Arabic Literature, Khalifah’s research interests include memory studies, world literature, and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world.
Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. Writing to Nasser 2. Nasser as Fiction 3. Nasser in Fiction 4. Nasser on the Screen Epilogue: Prospects of a Post-2011 Nasser Bibliography
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-1019-7 / 1474410197 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-1019-9 / 9781474410199 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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