Yona Sheffer

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures, as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years of Mubarak's presidency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781138600195
• ISBN-10: 1138600199
• Artikelnr.: 52715320

Autorenporträt

Yona Sheffer received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Dr. Sheffer currently teaches Introduction to Arabic Literature at The Polis Institute of Languages and Humanities in Jerusalem, and is Assistant Researcher for the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recent publications include The Individual versus Officialdom in Egyptian Prose Fiction since the 1952 Revolution. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2015 (Hebrew), and a Translation from Arabic to Hebrew of an autobiography by Meir Muallem: A Piece of Life: Memoirs from Iraq (Jerusalem: Association of Jewish Academics from Iraq, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface *
Introduction *
Chapter 1: The Authority Figures *
Chapter 2: The Individuals who come into Conflict with Authority Figures *
Chapter 3: The Background of the Conflicts between Individuals and Groups
and Authority Figures *
Chapter 4: The Conflicts: Development, Outcomes and Consequences *
Conclusions *
Bibliography *