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Title Blogging from Egypt : digital literature, 2005-2016 / Teresa Pepe
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Egyptian Blogs Between Fiction and Autobiography; 1. Arabic Literature Goes Digital; 2. The Paratext of Egyptian Blogs; 3. Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Style; 4. When Writers Activate Readers; 5. Bytes of Freedom: Fictionalized Bodies in the Egyptian Blogosphere; 6. Blogging a Revolution: From Utopia to Dystopia; Conclusion; List of Works Cited
Summary Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. This resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. Such blogs are explored here as forms of digital literature, combining literary analysis and interviews with the authors. The blogs analysed give readers a glimpse into the daily lives, feelings and aspirations of the Egyptian youth who have pushed the country towards a revolution. The narratives are also indicative of significant aesthetic and political developments taking place in Arabic literature and culture, giving an insight to the mindset of Arab youth in times of a cultural and political revolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English with Arabic excerpts alongside translations
Subject Blogs -- Egypt
Bloggers -- Egypt
Arabic literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Arabic literature
Bloggers
Blogs
Arabisch
Internetliteratur
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011004490
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pepe, Teresa
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