Street lives, roof lives
Literary transformations of Arab urban spaces after Mahfouz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christiane Schlote |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 523-534 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2011.614789 |
| OpenAlex | W1973798015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Drawing on recent studies of new cosmopolitanisms, this paper explores Arab writers’ use of space as a literary category in post-Mahfouz Arab urban fiction. By tracing conceptualizations of cosmopolitanism in the Middle East and by identifying and comparing the literary transformations of urban social experiences in Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 (1975), Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib’s Just Like a River (1984) and Alaa al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building (2002), and the writers’ attempts to overcome the ambiguous binary between national and cosmopolitan perspectives, this article aims to situate the novels’ main themes of urban violence, class and gender inequality, consumerism and social exclusion within a broader geopolitical framework
Arabic · Arabic literature · Archaeology · Art · Conceptualization · Cosmopolitanism · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Middle East Politics and Society · Urban Planning and Governance · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |