An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement. MARA NAAMAN Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Williams College, USA. INDICE: The Urban as Theoretical Frame - Specter of Paris: The Staging of Cairo's Modern City Center - Reconstructing a National Past: Radwa 'Ashur's Revisionist History of the Downtown - The Indigenous Modernism of Khayri Shalabi: Popular Intellectuals and the Neighborhood Ghurza - The Proletarian Revolution that Never Was: Idris 'Ali's Nubian Perspective - The Nation Recast throughNational Bestseller: Alaa al-Aswany's Ode to Downtown Cairo - Wust al-Balad as Neo-Bohemia: Writing in Defense of a Vanishing Public Sphere -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10865-3
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 254
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés