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Author Gitre, Carmen M. K., author.

Title Acting Egyptian : theater, identity, and political culture in Cairo, 1869-1930 / Carmen M.K. Gitre
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents Aida in Egypt -- How to be an effendi -- The story of Ahmad the rat -- Munira al-Mahdiyya, the revolutionary stage, and the modern Egyptian woman -- Conclusion
Summary In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the "protectorate" period of British occupation in Egypt?theaters and other performance sites were vital for imagining, mirroring, debating, and shaping competing conceptions of modern Egyptian identity. Central figures in this diverse spectrum were the effendis, an emerging class of urban, male, anticolonial professionals whose role would ultimately become dominant. Acting Egyptian argues that performance themes, spaces, actors, and audiences allowed pluralism to take center stage while simultaneously consolidating effendi voices. From the world premiere of Verdi?s Aida at Cairo?s Khedivial Opera House in 1871 to the theatrical rhetoric surrounding the revolution of 1919, which gave women an opportunity to link their visibility to the well-being of the nation, Acting Egyptian examines the ways in which elites and effendis, men and women, used newly built performance spaces to debate morality, politics, and the implications of modernity. Drawing on scripts, playbills, ads, and numerous other sources, the book brings to life provocative debates that fostered a new image of national culture and performances that echoed the events of urban life in the struggle for independence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Theater -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 19th century
Theater -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century
Theater and state -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 19th century
Theater and state -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
Civilization
Theater
Theater and state
SUBJECT Cairo (Egypt) -- Civilization -- 19th century
Cairo (Egypt) -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Egypt -- Cairo
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1477319190
9781477319192