Childhood and colonial modernity in Egypt / Heidi Morrison, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA.
Morrison, Heidi, author.
2015
HQ792.E35 M67 2015
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Title Childhood and colonial modernity in Egypt / Heidi Morrison, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA.
Author Morrison, Heidi, author.
ISBN 9781137432773 (hardback)
9781137432780 (e-book)
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number HQ792.E35 M67 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.40962
Summary "The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were pivotal in contemporary Egyptian history. The country searched for an identity in the face of intensifying western imperialism, the emerging nation-state, changing gender roles, and a rising middle class. A new cultural conception of childhood emerged in Egypt that had a synergistic and synonymous relationship with this process of modernization. Modernization cannot be separated from reconceptualization of categories of age. This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. The book uses unexplored Arabic sources such as the children's press and literature; as well as more familiar Arabic sources, such as autobiographies and the writings of Egyptian intellectuals--whose discussion of childhood has been so far ignored"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
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1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism
2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child
3. Child-Rearing and Class
4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt
5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory.

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