Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity. INDICE: The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziy?dah's Salon.The Salon as a Public Sphere.They Discuss.The Letter as Annex.Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the New.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-34086-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 19/10/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido