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Blogging from Egypt : digital literature, 2005-2016
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ISBN: 1474460232 1474434010 9781474433990 9781474434010 1474433995 9781474460231 9781474434027 1474434029 Year: 2019 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Such blogs are explored here as forms of digital literature, combining literary analysis and interviews with the authors. The blogs analysed give readers a glimpse into the daily lives, feelings and aspirations of the Egyptian youth who have pushed the country towards a cultural and political revolution. The narratives are also indicative of significant aesthetic and political developments taking place in Arabic literature and culture.


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Arabic literature in a posthuman world : Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL), May 2016, Oslo
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ISBN: 9783447112611 3447112611 Year: 2019 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag

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Arabic Literature in a Posthuman World explores Arabic literary production after the so-called ?Arab Spring?. 23 specialists of modern Arabic literature analyze the many ways in which contemporary Arab authors view and comment on a world that is dramatically changing and disintegrating, a world full of violent conflict, social instability, ideological vacuum and political collapse where there does not seem to be any place for humanity any more. The spread of new technologies and media added, this world not only appears inhumane, but also posthuman, a world of monstrosity in which mankind no longer controls its own destiny. Authors react to this with a writing of a new quality that makes the old humanist project of an Arab nah?a appear as a failed utopia.0A first section focuses on the increased interest that authors assign to the past as a shaper of the present. The other sections highlight the many subversive techniques with which the writers try to reassert humanity against the overall trend of de-humanization. The spectrum spans from ?Contested Spaces over Science Fiction and Dystopia? and methods of ?Countering/Resisting Fragmentation?, ?Dispersal?, ?Loss?, ?Oblivion?, to ?Satire and Rap?. The volume is the first to explore what Ihab Hassan?s term posthuman(ism), widely debated only in and for Western contexts so far, may mean in other parts of the world.

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