Title Egypt awakening in the early twentieth century : Mayy Ziyādah's intellectual circles / Boutheina Khaldi

Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) Series Middle East today Middle East today. Contents 1 The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziyādah's Salon -- 2 The Salon as a Public Sphere -- 3 A Salon Session -- 4 The Letter as Annex -- 5 Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the New Summary "Through her detailed study of Mayy Ziyādah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the modernity project"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index Notes Print version record Subject Ziyādah, Mayy -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Ziyādah, Mayy fast Subject Salons -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century Authors, Arab -- Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Women -- Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt (see also Ancient -- Egypt) LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. Intellectual life Salons Women -- Intellectual life SUBJECT Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject Egypt Egypt -- Cairo Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137106667 1137106662

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