Committed to disillusion : activist writers in Egypt in the 1960s-1980s / David F. DiMeo

Author:: DiMeo, David Fred
Additional Titles:: Committed to disillusion : activist writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s
Published:: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2016.
Copyright Date:: ©2016
Physical Description:: xi, 236 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Early Influences on Arabic Committed Literature -- The Theoretical Problem of Committed Literature -- The Soviet Legacy of Directed Literature -- Sartre's Call to Engagement in Post-War France -- Brecht and Lukacs Debate Literature for Social Change -- ch. 2 Al-Adab al-Multazim: A Distinctive Arabic Model of Committed Literature -- Commitment before Iltizam -- Iltizam in Arabic Literature -- An Arabic Model of Committed Literature -- Iltizam in the Nasser Era -- Committed Literature in the Sadat Era -- ch. 3 Naguib Mahfouz: The Exemplar of Multazim Writing in a Period of Disillusion -- Early Influences -- Al-Adab al-Multazim in Practice: Mahfouz's A Beginning and an End -- A Dramatic Change in Style -- Inverting the Paradigm of Iltizam -- The Beggar -- Gossip on the Nile -- Karnak Cafe -- Wedding in the Dome -- ch. 4 Yusuf Idris, a Writer of the Revolutionary Era -- The Multazim Writing of Yusuf Idris: "An Errand" -- A Turn from Realism -- "The Alif in al-Ahrar" -- The Black Policeman -- "The Aorta" -- "The Sunken Mattress" -- "The Piper Dies" -- ch. 5 Sonallah Ibrahim, Son of the Revolution -- That Smell -- August Star -- The Committee -- Conclusion: From Literary Disillusion to Electronic Revolution -- An Inversion of al-Adab al-Multazim -- Activist Writing after al-Adab al-Multazim -- The Activist Writer in the Electronic Age -- Defection of the Artists.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9774167619
9789774167614

Note:

Subtitle on book jacket cover reads 'activist writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s.'

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.

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