UID:
almahu_9949297113002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (XVI, 272 p.)
ISBN:
9783110726305
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9783110750720
Serie:
ZMO-Studien : Studien des Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient ; 41
Inhalt:
Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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On names, pronouns, and spelling --
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List of illustrations --
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Map of Alexandria --
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Introduction: Where is Literature? --
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Part I: About writing --
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1 Why write, and why not stop? --
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2 Infrastructures of imagination --
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3 The writing of lives --
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Part II: Writing about --
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4 Can poetry change the world? --
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5 Where is Alexandria? --
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6 Writing on walls --
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7 Is prose poetry a conspiracy against the Noble Qurʾan? --
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8 The search for a clear vision --
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Afterword: On exiles and alternatives --
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Bibliography
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DG Ebook Package English 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110750720
In:
DG Plus DeG Package 2021 Part 1, De Gruyter, 9783110750706
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
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EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754193
In:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110726367
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110726770
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110726305
