Remembering cosmopolitan Egypt
Subtitle: literature, culture, and empire
By: Deborah A. Starr.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415775113; 9780203881361
Subjects: Egypt -- Civilization -- Western influences; Egypt -- Fiction; Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Literary Alexandria; title: 3. Poetics of memory: Edwar al-Kharrat; title: 4. Polis and cosmos: Ibrahim Abdel Meguid; title: 5. Why New York?: Youssef Chahine; title: 6. Gazing across Sinai; title: 7. A Mediterranean vigor that never wanes: Yitzhaq Gormezano Goren; title: 8. Unmasking Levantine blindness: Ronit Matalon; title: 9. Conclusion.