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Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought and Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780755635405)
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xThis book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era.
It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging.
The book demonstrates how the interaction between Arabic and non-Arabic cultural and intellectual production as well as influences from imperial Europe and the Islamic East, have in various times and spaces inspired creative tensions which challenge binary views of East-West relations and the standard imperialist-colonial frameworks. In this sense the volume seeks to offer a critique of both established modernising conceptions of cultural development and nationalist, nativist frameworks based on the values of a specific political project.
Author: Anthony Gorman
ISBN-10: 075563540X
ISBN-13: 9780755635405
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d
It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging.
The book demonstrates how the interaction between Arabic and non-Arabic cultural and intellectual production as well as influences from imperial Europe and the Islamic East, have in various times and spaces inspired creative tensions which challenge binary views of East-West relations and the standard imperialist-colonial frameworks. In this sense the volume seeks to offer a critique of both established modernising conceptions of cultural development and nationalist, nativist frameworks based on the values of a specific political project.
Author: Anthony Gorman
ISBN-10: 075563540X
ISBN-13: 9780755635405
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d
By Anthony Gorman
xANTHONY GORMAN is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author of Historians, State
and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt (2003) he has more recently
coedited and contributed to volumes on late nineteenth-century Egypt,
Middle Eastern diasporas and the press in the Middle East before 1950.
University, UK, researching a social history of the 1927 earthquake in
Palestine. She is also Visiting Research Fellow with the Crossroads
project on Middle Eastern Christians at Leiden University, The
Netherlands, and editor of the journal Contemporary Levant.
She earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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