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024 7 _a10.1515/9780823252282
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823252282
035 _a(DE-B1597)555019
035 _a(OCoLC)859536488
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aPN56.3.A42
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082 0 4 _a809/.93358621
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHalim, Hala
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAlexandrian Cosmopolitanism :
_bAn Archive /
_cHala Halim.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (448 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter One. Of Greeks, Barbarians, Philhellenes, Hellenophones, and Egyptiotes --
_tChapter Two. Of Hellenized Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Subalternity --
_tChapter Three. Uncanny Hybridity into Neocolonialism --
_tChapter Four. “Polypolis” and Levantine Camp --
_tEpilogue/Prologue --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aInterrogating 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aCosmopolitanism in literature.
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
650 4 _aUrban Studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
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653 _aBernard de Zogheb.
653 _aC.P. Cavafy.
653 _aCosmopolitanism.
653 _aE.M. Forster.
653 _aImperialism.
653 _aLawrence Durrell.
653 _aMediterranean.
653 _aalexandria.
653 _aegypt.
700 1 _aCavafy, C. P.
_eautore
700 1 _aDurrell, Lawrence
_eautore
700 1 _aForster, E. M.
_eautore
700 1 _aZogheb, Bernard de
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252282?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823252282
856 4 2 _3Cover
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