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

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

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Author / Creator:	Khālidī, Buthaynah.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	237 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Middle East today Middle East today.
Subject:	Ziyādah, Mayy -- Criticism and interpretation. Ziyādah, Mayy. Salons -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 20th century. Authors, Arab -- Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Women -- Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Intellectual life. Salons. Women -- Intellectual life. Egypt -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Egypt. Egypt -- Cairo. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9105413

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ISBN:	9780230340862 0230340865
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziyadah'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
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Works Cited
Index