Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World
Arts, Thought and Literature
This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging.The bo…
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Weitere Autoren: Irving, Sarah (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7556-0632-0
- EAN: 9780755606320
- Produktnummer: 34872919
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 67'177 KB
- Abbildungen: 41 b/w illustrations
Über den Autor
ANTHONY GORMAN is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle EasternStudies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author of Historians, Stateand Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt (2003) he has more recentlycoedited and contributed to volumes on late nineteenth-century Egypt,Middle Eastern diasporas and the press in the Middle East before 1950.SARAH IRVING is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Edge HillUniversity, UK, researching a social history of the 1927 earthquake inPalestine. She is also Visiting Research Fellow with the Crossroadsproject on Middle Eastern Christians at Leiden University, TheNetherlands, and editor of the journal Contemporary Levant.She earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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