National Robin Hoods and Local Avengers

On Two Shifts in the Criminal Myth of Rayyā and Sakīna in Present Day Egypt

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7315366
AutoresElena Chiti (0000-0002-3086-5350, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas517-534
Data de publicação2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/johs.12343
OpenAlexW3196913945
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas26

The article examines bandit myths from a socio‐historical perspective, as part of the socio‐cultural reality of present‐day Egypt. It engages in the semiotics of banditry encouraged by Stephanie Cronin by taking a first step towards a social semiotics analysis of Rayyā and Sakīna, the two Egyptian female criminals par excellence, arrested in 1920 and executed in 1921. I will argue that Rayyā and Sakīna's criminal myth is currently being resignified in terms that can be conceived of as social banditry. Ethnography, press, and broadcast sources help to highlight two different recent shifts towards bandit myths, linked respectively to national and local circulation

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