TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keren Zdafee
TI  - Cartooning for a Modern Egypt
T2  - Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic world,
SN  - 9789004410374
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Caricature
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Caricatures and cartoons
KW  - Art and society
KW  - 1919-1952
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -