Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism : An Archive / Hala Halim.
2013
PN56.3.A42 H35 2013eb
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Title
Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism : An Archive / Hala Halim.
Author
Halim, Hala, author.
ISBN
9780823252282
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (448 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823252282 doi
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PN56.3.A42 H35 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93358621
Summary
Interrogating 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.Halim 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-who 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 anticolonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas, one of which centers on Cavafy.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 theEuropean representations.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
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Cavafy, C. P., contributor.
Durrell, Lawrence, contributor.
Forster, E. M., contributor.
Zogheb, Bernard de, contributor.
Durrell, Lawrence, contributor.
Forster, E. M., contributor.
Zogheb, Bernard de, contributor.
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Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes
Chapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity
Chapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism
Chapter Four. "Polypolis" and Levantine Camp
Epilogue/Prologue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes
Chapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity
Chapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism
Chapter Four. "Polypolis" and Levantine Camp
Epilogue/Prologue
Notes
Works Cited
Index