The Power of Representation
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- Synopsis
- Gasper (history, Yale U. ) traces Egyptian national identity formation from the mid-1870s through the 1910s as a social and political project largely carried out by urban, literate elites. He argues that a good part of this project revolved around changing both the self-conception of the urban intellegentsia and their literary representations of the Egyptian peasantry, placing the peasantry within discourses of reform and nation that valorized their permanence and ceased to draw dividing lines between urban and rural in defining the nation, yet simultaneously placed the urban intelligentsia in the position of being the only legitimate voice of reform on behalf of the peasantry. He places this process within the context of the expansion of commodity production in Egypt and the pivotal impact of Islamic modernism as an ideology of mass mobilization. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804769808
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804758888
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.