Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Selim, Samah (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Θέματα: Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; African literature.; European literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; African Literature.; European Literature.

This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various forms of cultural and literar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Bad Books for Bad Readers
• Chapter 3: The People's Entertainments
• Chapter 4: The Things of the Time: Cairo at the Turn of the Century
• Chapter 5: New Women and Novel Characters
• Chapter 6: Fiction and Colonial Identities
• Chapter 7: Pharaoh's Revenge
• Chapter 8: The Mysteries of Cairo.