Committed to Disillusion : Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionmen...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 9781617977589 1617977586 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Chapter 1 Early Influences on Arabic Committed Literature; Chapter 2 Al-Adab al-Multazim: A Distinctive Arabic Model of Committed Literature; Chapter 3 Naguib Mahfouz: The Exemplar of Multazim Writing in a Period of Disillusion; Chapter 4 Yusuf Idris: A Writer of the Revolutionary Era; Chapter 5 Sonallah Ibrahim, Son of the Revolution; Conclusion: From Literary Disillusion to Electronic Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; Index.