{"product_id":"the-novel-and-the-rural-samah-selim-9780415318372","title":"The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985","description":"The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which the cultural discourses produced by twentieth century Egyptian nationalism created a space for both a hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of language, class and place that inscribed a bifurcated narrative and social geography, are examined. The book argues that the rupture between the village and the city contained in the Egyptian nationalism discourse is reproduced as a narrative dislocation that has continued to characterize and shape the Egyptian novel in general and the village novel in particular. Reading the village novel in Egypt as a dynamic intertext that constructs modernity in a local historical and political context rather than rehearsing a simple repetition of dominant European literary-critical paradigms, this book offers a new approach to the construction of modern Arabic literary history as well as to theoretical questions related to the structure and role of the novel as a worldly narrative genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samah Selim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415318378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415318372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 6.10w x 0.81d","brand":"Samah Selim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086587015423,"sku":"9780415318372","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40fec1c6-803b-4bcd-b305-bab982d2f26b.jpg?v=1769095540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-novel-and-the-rural-samah-selim-9780415318372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}