Alfred Farag and Egyptian theater
Subtitle: the poetics of disguise, with four short plays and a monologue
By: Dina A. Amin ; with a foreword by Roger Allen.
Contributors: Faraj, Alfrid.; Allen, Roger M. A.
Series: Middle east literature in translation
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780815631637
Subjects: Faraj, Alfrid -- Criticism and interpretation; Arabic drama -- Egypt -- History and criticism
Description: "As one of Egyptian theater's leading contemporary playwrights, Alfred Farag has had a profound influence on shaping Arabic drama and Egyptian cultural politics during the past five decades. In the first book-length examination of his work in English, Dina Amin chronicles Farag's career and offers a critical perspective on his creative output and the condition of Eyptian theater in the 1970s through the 1990s." "Farag is best known for the folkloric and neo-realist plays he produced during the sixties, but critics haw consistently overlooked the immense body of work produced in the thirty years that followed. Filing that gap, Amin offers an account of the sophisticated development of his later work, revealing his bold experimentation and successful embrace of modernist, absurdist, and postmodern styles. With fresh insight, Amin contextualizes these works within Farag's own creative history and the larger history of Arabic theater. This critical text includes four complete short plays and a monologue translated for the first time into English and will bring a much-deserved wider audience to the work of this extraordinary dramatist."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, roger allen; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes on translation and transliteration; title: Introduction; title: Poetics; title: Alfred farag and political commitment; title: Alfred farag's drama and the politics of identity; title: Metadrama: the poetics of disguise; title: The theater; title: The sixties: egyptian theater in search of an identity; title: The seventies: dramatic self-consciousness and drama against itself; title: The seventies: self-conscious characters and places of danger; title: Conclusion: farag's metadrama, from formalism to functionality; title: The plays; title: The visitor; title: The peephole; title: The stranger; title: The egyptian hay circle; title: The last walk: a monologue; title: Appendixes:; title: A. theater of the absurd; title: B. works by alfred farag; title: Alfred farag's photo gallery.