Creative reckonings: the politics of art and culture in contemporary Egypt

✍ Scribed by Jessica Winegar

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 416
Series: ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
Preface (page xv)
Acknowledgments (page xix)
Introduction: Cultural Politics and Genealogies of the Modern in the Postcolony (page 1)
Amina Mansur: The Map of Love (page 37)
1 Becoming an Egyptian Artist: "Freethinking" in the Mainstream (page 44)
Muhammad Mukhtar, Al-Ginubi: Season of Migration to the North (page 81)
2 Cultural Authenticity, Artistic Personhood, and Frames of Evaluation (page 88)
Muhamma 'Abla: Nile Sparrows (page 131)
3 Freedom of Talk: Cultural Policy and the Transforming State (page 137)
Mustafa al-Razzaz: Book of Revelations (page 175)
4 Cultivating Civilized Publics (page 182)
Gazibiyya Sirri-The Search: Personal Papers (page 216)
5 Collecting a Nation, Displaying (a) Culture (page 225)
'Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar: I Say to You (page 268)
6 Art and Culture Between Empire and Sovereignty (page 275)
Raghib 'Ayad: Return of the Spirit (page 315)
Final Interlocutions (page 321)
Notes (page 329)
References (page 355)
Index (page 371)

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