Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century [electronic resource] : Mayy Ziyadah's Intellectual Circles /
Khaldi, B.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziyadah's Salon; 2 The Salon as a Public Sphere; 3 A Salon Session; 4 The Letter as Annex; 5 Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the New; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ziyādah, Mayy.
Middle East-Politics and government.
Middle East-History.
Political science.
Sociology.
Ethnology-Middle East .
History, Modern.
Middle Eastern Politics.
History of the Middle East.
Political Science.
Gender Studies.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Modern History.