Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel: Politics, Poetics and Modernity

by Lorenzo Casini

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini here traces the way that imaginaries and representations of the West became bound up with the notions of modernity and national identity with which Egyptian novelists grappled, from the works of Tawfiq...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755646274
• ISBN13: 9780755646272
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"