The Indigenous Modernism of Khayri Shalabi
Popular Intellectuals and the Neighborhood Ghurza
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23408080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mara Naaman (0000-0001-8449-2417, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 71-104 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230119710_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2507091196 |
| ISBN | 9780230119710 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
I n the previous chapters I have attempted to establish the site of Wust al-Balad as a historically contested space. The staging of colonial modernity in this space, as we have seen, was a project that was intended to give rise to the modern Egyptian subject. The demonstrations on the eve of the 1952 revolution, as detailed in our discussion of Radwa ‘Ashur’s Qit’a min Urubba , symbolized an important attempt on the part of Cairenes to mar this facade of modernity and decry the increasing presence of foreign capital and consumption in prominent Western locations of the city. Similarly the use of these iconic Western spaces by Egyptian nationalists as key sites for the staging of anti-colonial protests and rallies suggests the way these spaces were then reappropri-ated for the Egyptian nationalist project. To further these ends, the changing of street names in the area of downtown signals not only an obliteration of an undesirable past but an act of “taking back” Wust al-Balad as territory of the Egyptian nation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Capital (architecture) · Colonialism · Geography · Indigenous · Modernism (music) · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Space (punctuation) · Subject (documents) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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