Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism (ePub)
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(Sprache: Englisch)
Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things...
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Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city's culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity.Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers-C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell-who she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers' representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anticolonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas, one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers' and filmmakers' engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with theEuropean representations.
Autoren-Porträt von Halim
Hala Halim is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Halim
- 2013, Englisch
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- ISBN-10: 0823252272
- ISBN-13: 9780823252275
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2013
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