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The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture

Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency

  2. The Intellectual and the Quest for Amāra

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The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture.

Reviews

“The Intellectual and the People is a rich and successful effort at thinking about the aesthetics of radical politics in Egyptian literature and culture. … It is also a call for and a most welcome example of how to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion with comparative literature and political theory.” (Adélie Chevée, Contemporary Levant, Vol 2 (2), October, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • SOAS, University of London, UK

    Ayman A. El-Desouky

About the author

Ayman A. El-Desouky is Senior Lecturer in Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature and Founding Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS, 2009-2012) at SOAS, University of London, UK. He has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin (1993-1995), the Johns Hopkins University (1995-1996) and at Harvard University (1996-2002) before he moved to London. He is currently preparing a book-length study on Figuring the Sacred in the Modern Arabic Novel.

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