Decentering Egyptian Historiography: Provincializing Geographies, Methodologies, and Sources
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“They say the city never sleeps, they it bursts at seams. The rotates and revolves. branches out. beats, bleeds.” This unnamed is Cairo, Umm al-Dunya or “mother of world,” once a vibrant character pulsating backdrop Ahmed Naji's scandal-rousing Istikhdam al-Hayat ( Using Life ) countless other works in Egyptian literature. Amitav Ghosh has argued his autobiographical chronicle historical research anthropological fieldwork Delta 1980 beyond, “Egypt's own metaphor for itself.” If that case, what does this sprawling pervasive synecdoche reveal obscure?
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Middle East Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0020-7438', '1471-6380']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743821000015