Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) - Softcover

Koerber, Benjamin

 
9781474455831: Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474455832 ISBN 13: 9781474455831
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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Conspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principle tropes – omnipotent secret societies, impending apocalypse, heroes who crack codes – have recurred in Arabic literature as well. A number of Egyptian authors, including Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Naguib Surur, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Youssef Rakha have crafted potent narratives of conspiracy that have remained unexamined until now. In a series of case studies, this book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.

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Benjamin Koerber is Assistant Professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University.

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Examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction over the last centuryConspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principal tropes – omnipotent secret societies, impending apocalypse, heroes who crack codes – have recurred in Arabic literature as well. A number of Egyptian authors, including Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Naguib Surur, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal al-Ghitani and Youssef Rakha, have crafted potent narratives of conspiracy that have remained unexamined until now.In a series of case studies, this book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. And it shows that when read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.Key Features•Provides the first critical study of conspiracy theory in Arabic literature•Examines work by authors who have received little critical attention in English (Youssef Rakha, Mohammad Rabie, Ahmed Naji)•Examines the recent ‘authoritarian turn’ of some Egyptian authors•Contains an Arabic edition and partial translation of Naguib Surur’s infamous underground quatrainsBenjamin Koerber is Assistant Professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University.Cover image: sourced from modernegypt.bibalex.orgCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1744-0Barcode

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Examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction over the last centuryConspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principal tropes omnipotent secret societies, impending apocalypse, heroes who crack codes have recurred in Arabic literature as well. A number of Egyptian authors, including Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Naguib Surur, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal al-Ghitani and Youssef Rakha, have crafted potent narratives of conspiracy that have remained unexamined until now.In a series of case studies, this book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. And it shows that when read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.Key Features Provides the first critical study of conspiracy theory in Arabic literature Examines work by authors who have received little critical attention in English (Youssef Rakha, Mohammad Rabie, Ahmed Naji) Examines the recent authoritarian turn of some Egyptian authors Contains an Arabic edition and partial translation of Naguib Surur s infamous underground quatrainsBenjamin Koerber is Assistant Professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University.Cover image: sourced from modernegypt.bibalex.orgCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1744-0Barcode

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474455832
ISBN 13 
9781474455831
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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