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Laugh like an Egyptian : Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel / Cristina Dozio.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] ; 5Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XV, 232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110725292
  • 9783110725513
  • 9783110725414
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892.7/360917 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on transliteration -- Bibliographic reference for the novels -- Introduction -- 1 A laughable tradition -- 2 Masters of humour -- 3 Reversed epics. Nuʿmān, the village antihero -- 4 Ibn Shalabī, a (pre-)modern trickster -- 5 Laughing together at the hash den -- 6 Laughing together at migration -- 7 A comparative look -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Websites and videos -- Index
Summary: Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on transliteration -- Bibliographic reference for the novels -- Introduction -- 1 A laughable tradition -- 2 Masters of humour -- 3 Reversed epics. Nuʿmān, the village antihero -- 4 Ibn Shalabī, a (pre-)modern trickster -- 5 Laughing together at the hash den -- 6 Laughing together at migration -- 7 A comparative look -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Websites and videos -- Index

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Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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