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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783110726770 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
NVIC |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Shared Margins: |
| Remainder of title |
An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Berlin: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
De Gruyter; |
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Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
272 p., |
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ill., map; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
ZMO-Studien; |
| Volume/sequential designation |
41 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
PART I: About Writing-- 1.Why Write, and Why Not Stop?-- 2.Infrastructures of Imagination-- 3.The Writing of Lives--PART II:Writing About-- 4.Can Poetry Change the World?-- 5. Where Is Alexandria?-- 6. Writing on Walls--7.Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy against the Noble Qurʾan?--8.The Search for a Clear Vision--Afterword:On Exiles and Alternatives |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division.<br/><br/>Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011.<br/><br/>Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity."--Provided by publisher. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Literary scene |
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Alexandria |
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Egypt |
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Writers |
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Social circles |
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Private lives |
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Alexandria |
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Egypt |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Samuli Schielke |
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Mukhtar Saad Shehata |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |