Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity.
ISBN: | 9780230340862 |
Publication date: | 5th December 2012 |
Author: | Buthaynah Khalidi |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 237 pages |
Series: | Middle East Today |
Genres: |
Politics and government Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Political science and theory Asian history History |