TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halim,Hala
AU  - Cavafy,C.P.
AU  - Durrell,Lawrence
AU  - Forster,E.M.
AU  - Zogheb,Bernard de
TI  - Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive 
SN  - 9780823251766
AV  - PN56.3.A42 H35 2013eb
U1  - 809/.93358621 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Cosmopolitanism in literature
KW  - European literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
KW  - Urban Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bernard de Zogheb
KW  - C.P. Cavafy
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - E.M. Forster
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Lawrence Durrell
KW  - Mediterranean
KW  - alexandria
KW  - egypt
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes --; Chapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity --; Chapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism --; Chapter Four. “Polypolis” and Levantine Camp --; Epilogue/Prologue --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city’s culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity.Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers—C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell—who she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers’ representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anticolonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas, one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers’ and filmmakers’ engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with theEuropean representations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252282?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252282
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823252282/original
ER  -