Politicising World Literature
Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Jun '21
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Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature. How does canonising world literature relate to societal, political or academic reform? Alternating between close reading of texts and literary history, this monograph studies a corpus of novels and travelogues in English, Arabic, French, Czech and Italian to historicise Egypt’s literary relations with different parts of the world in both the modern period and the pre-modern period. In this rigorous study, May Hawas argues that protagonists, particularly in times of political crises, locate themselves as individuals with communal or political affiliations that supersede, if not actually resist, national affiliations.
A wonderfully fresh and unpredictable voice in the sometimes all too predictable debates between world literature and postcolonial studies.
--Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
This book is an important and timely intervention in the fields of world literature, the postcolonial novel, and literary history and criticism. Hawas’s attention to aesthetics and pedagogy in her reading of a wide range of literary texts is remarkable.
--Kifah Hanna, Trinity College
A wonderfully fresh and unpredictable voice in the sometimes all too predictable debates between world literature and postcolonial studies.
--Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
This book is an important and timely intervention in the fields of world literature, the postcolonial novel, and literary history and criticism. Hawas’s attention to aesthetics and pedagogy in her reading of a wide range of literary texts is remarkable.
--Kifah Hanna, Trinity College
ISBN: 9781032093123
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 322g
232 pages