Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
Online ISBN:
9781617970399
Print ISBN:
9789774163746
Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
Book
Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
Published:
15 September 2010
Online ISBN:
9781617970399
Print ISBN:
9789774163746
Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
Cite
Mehrez, Samia, Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice (Cairo , 2010; online edn, Cairo Scholarship Online, 14 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5743/cairo/9789774163746.001.0001, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty-first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between “high” and “low” culture, drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies, and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media, and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of questions about the relationship between the cultural and political fields in Egypt.
Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Prologue Take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis
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Part I Inside the literary establishment Power struggles and dreams of autonomy
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1
Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field
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2
Children of our alley The AUC Naguib Mahfouz Award and the Egyptian Literary field
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3
The big one The intellectual and the political in Modern Egyptian Literature
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4
The value of freedom the writer against the establishment
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1
Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field
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Part II Remaking culture Emerging institutions, discourses, icons and metaphors
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5
Lost in globalization Education and the stranded Egyptian elite
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Translating gender between the local and the global11Close
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Where have all the families gone? Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s
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From thehara to the imara Emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo11Close
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5
Lost in globalization Education and the stranded Egyptian elite
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Part III The bounds of change State, street and self-censorship
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Taking the soap out of the opera The case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family
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10
The new Kid on the blockBahibb issima and the Emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere
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11
Found in Cairo The limits of Representation in the visual field
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Literature and Literalism The Al-Khubz al-Hafi Crisis Reconsidered
- Epilogue
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Taking the soap out of the opera The case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family
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End Matter
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