Title: Focus on Egypt /
Authors: Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Arabic literature Egypt History and criticism.; Arabic literature Egypt African influences.; African literature History and criticism; African literature Egyptian influences.; Comparative literature.; Literatur; Autor; Autorin; African literature.; Arabic literature; Comparative literature; Literature; Egypt In literature.; Africa In literature.; Ägypten; Africa; Egypt
Abstract: "Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement"--Boydell & Brewer Publishers' website, March 2, 2018.
Contents: Foreword / Nawal El Saadawi -- Is Egypt in Africa, professor? / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Coping with a failed revolution : Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rashidi / John C. Hawley -- The complications of reading Egypt as Africa : translation & Magdy el-Shafee's ... "(Metro)" / James Hodapp & Deema Nasser -- Narratives of the "Nubian awakening": reclaiming Egypt's African identity / Christine Gilmore -- Frantz Fanon's conceptualization of decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's "The committee" / Temitope Abisoye Noah -- Romance as epistemological aesthetic in the fiction of Ahdaf Soueif / F. Fiona Moolla -- Literature as prophecy : re-reading Yusuf Idris's "The cheapest nights" / Eunice Ngongkum -- Travel & discovery : hopes for a new Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's "Butterfly wings" / Kelvin Ngong Toh -- The symbolic relevance of the use of the eye in Nawal El Saadawi's "Two women in one & God dies by the Nile" / Razinat T. Mohammed -- African epics : a comparative study of "Sundiata" & "Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah" / Khalid Abouel-Lail -- Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi : feminism, dissidence, patriarchy & contemporary Egyptian literature. Online interview -- Little magazines & the development of modern African poetry / Mathias Iroro Orhero -- Locating African and diaspora literature in the global context / Tomi Adeaga -- The postcolonial writer & the existential ordeal / Nduka Otiono -- My mother (Nawal El Saadawi) : poem / Mona Helmy -- And the stars beckoned : short story / Nadia Wassef -- Hijack in Hurghada : a travelogue / Razinat T. Mohammed -- Childless : short story / Kalapi Sen -- The president's change agent / Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo -- In memoriam : Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 / Chiji Akoma -- Reviews.