Atlantic decolonial critical approach to representations of Cairo’s cityscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12737962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Thérèse Abdelmessih (0000-0002-8122-2443, Kuwait University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-65 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Atlantic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-8810 • E-ISSN: 1740-4649 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14788810.2016.1219089 |
| OpenAlex | W2570111344 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In this study, selected works by two Egyptian novelists are explored from a critical decolonial approach. Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī’s (1945–2015) and Yāsir Aḥmad’s (1980) novels are renditions of architectural transformations in Cairo’s cityscape representing complex cultural mutations. Issues of cultural ex/changes and agency will be dealt with by drawing on critical approaches propounded by Aníbal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, and Walter Mignolo, among others, to challenge the exclusivity of European post/modernity. It explores “trans-modern,” aspects in selected fictional representations of Cairo, a marginocentric city located in the Mediterranean rim, often considered as an “exterior” location
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Art history · Cityscape · Epistemology · Modernity · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Present Pasts
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Translating Egypt's Revolution
Egypt's Culture Wars
The Third World in the Global 1960s
Local Histories/Global Designs
Local Histories/Global Designs
Transmodernity and Interculturality
On subalterns and other agencies
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
| Highly cited | No |
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