{"product_id":"alexandrian-cosmopolitanism-hala-halim-9780823251766","title":"Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive","description":"bHonorable Mention for the 2014 Harry Levin Prize r \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city's culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization\/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHalim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers--C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell--whom she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers' representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anti-colonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his Camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers' and filmmakers' engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with the European representations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hala Halim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823251764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823251766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60d","brand":"Hala Halim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926556901631,"sku":"9780823251766","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6adf9c92-6123-47c4-8937-4ef8a84c92d4.jpg?v=1681083729","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alexandrian-cosmopolitanism-hala-halim-9780823251766","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}