Cartooning for a Modern Egypt
Keren Zdafee
Cartooning for a Modern Egypt - xiii, 246 p., ill.; 27 cm - Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic world, Vol. 13 2213-3844; .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
"The Egyptian caricature is generally studied as part of Egyptian mass culture, and mainly discussed in the context of Egypt's anti-colonial resistance to British foreign rule, as part of the forging of a "national style". In Cartooning for a Modern Egypt, Keren Zdafee foregrounds the role that Egypt's foreign-local entrepreneurs and caricaturists played in formulating and constructing the modern Egyptian caricature of the interwar years, that was designated for, and reflected, a colonial and cosmopolitan culture of a few. Keren Zdafee illustrates how Egyptian foreign-local caricaturists envisioned and evaluated the past, present, and future of Egyptian society, in the context of Cairo's colonial cosmopolitanism, by adopting a theoretical, semiotic, and historical approach"--
9789004410374
Caricature--History--Egypt--20th century
Caricatures and cartoons--History--Egypt--20th century
Art and society--History--Egypt--20th century
Egypt--History--Caricatures and cartoons--1919-1952
Cartooning for a Modern Egypt - xiii, 246 p., ill.; 27 cm - Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic world, Vol. 13 2213-3844; .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
"The Egyptian caricature is generally studied as part of Egyptian mass culture, and mainly discussed in the context of Egypt's anti-colonial resistance to British foreign rule, as part of the forging of a "national style". In Cartooning for a Modern Egypt, Keren Zdafee foregrounds the role that Egypt's foreign-local entrepreneurs and caricaturists played in formulating and constructing the modern Egyptian caricature of the interwar years, that was designated for, and reflected, a colonial and cosmopolitan culture of a few. Keren Zdafee illustrates how Egyptian foreign-local caricaturists envisioned and evaluated the past, present, and future of Egyptian society, in the context of Cairo's colonial cosmopolitanism, by adopting a theoretical, semiotic, and historical approach"--
9789004410374
Caricature--History--Egypt--20th century
Caricatures and cartoons--History--Egypt--20th century
Art and society--History--Egypt--20th century
Egypt--History--Caricatures and cartoons--1919-1952