Decentering Egyptian Historiography: Provincializing Geographies, Methodologies, and Sources

Autor:	Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, Lucia Carminati
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Literature History Sociology and Political Science business.industry Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Historiography Character (symbol) Synecdoche Comparative historical research business media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of Middle East Studies. 53:107-111
ISSN:	1471-6380 0020-7438
DOI:	10.1017/s0020743821000015
Popis:	“They say the city never sleeps, they say it bursts at the seams. The city rotates and revolves. The city branches out. The city beats, the city bleeds.” This unnamed city is Cairo, Umm al-Dunya or “mother of the world,” at once a vibrant character and the pulsating backdrop of Ahmed Naji's scandal-rousing Istikhdam al-Hayat (Using Life) and countless other works in Egyptian literature. Cairo, Amitav Ghosh has argued in his autobiographical chronicle of historical research and anthropological fieldwork in the Egyptian Delta in 1980 and beyond, is “Egypt's own metaphor for itself.” If that is the case, what does this sprawling and pervasive synecdoche reveal and what does it obscure?
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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