Literature, journalism and the avant-garde intersection in Egypt
By: Elisabeth Kendall.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism; Journalism and literature -- Egypt
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary journalism in Egypt: its emergence and development; title: Embryonic literary journalism; title: Ṣanūʼ and al-Nadīm: two pioneers of satirical literary journalism; title: Literary journalism under the British occupation; title: The early twentieth century; title: The golden age of literary journalism: the mid-twenties to the Second World War; title: Literary journalism in egypt: increasing politicization; title: From the Second World War to the 1952 Revolution; title: In the wake of the 1952 Revolution; title: Institutionalization: the 1960s; title: The theoretical basis of the avant-garde in 1960s Egypt; title: What is meant by avant-garde? Social transition and the avant-garde; title: The journal: an effective medium for the avant-garde; title: Why this avant-garde assertion in the late 1960s?; title: Who were the avant-gardistes?; title: What was 'the new sensibility'?; title: The avant-garde and the future; title: The sixties generation and its politics of literature; title: Gallery 68: its position in the literary field; title: Gallery 68: a political act?; title: Gallery 68: in pursuit of truth and progress; title: Gallery 68: clique or open society?; title: Gallery 68: mission accomplished; title: The sixties generation in search of a specific literary identity; title: Western infiltration; title: 'New versus old'; title: Socialist realism and commitment; title: Gallery 68 and poetry; title: The establishment of a new literary paradigm: the 1970s and beyond; title: 'Sixties' writers: shifting positions in the literary field?; title: Gallery 68's successors: entrenchment of the paradigm; title: The struggle for legitimacy: canonization begins.