UID:
almahu_9949369339502882
Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9781474405805
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Ser.
Content:
This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.
Note:
Intro -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Background and Context -- 2 Rebel with a Pen -- 3 Cairo Prison: Tilka al-raʼiha (1966) -- 4 Michelangelo and the Dam: Najmat Aghustus (1974) -- 5 CocaColaland: al-Lajna (1981) -- 6 War in Lebanon: Bayrut, Bayrut (1984) -- 7 Consumer Society: Dhat (1992) -- 8 Prison of Dishonour: Sharaf (1997) -- 9 Widening Horizons (1): Sex, Memory and Revolution: Warda (2000) -- 10 Widening Horizons (2): In the Land of the Capitalists: Amrikanli (Amri Kan Li) (2003) -- 11 Return to Childhood: Al-Talassus (2007) -- 12 The French Connection: al-ʿImama wa-al-Qubbaʿa (2008) and al-Qanun al-Faransi (2008) -- 13 Filling a Gap: al-Jalid (2011) -- 14 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Starkey, Paul Sonallah Ibrahim Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2016 ISBN 9781474426442
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
