ALT 35 African Literature Today Focus on Egypt [Hardcover]

Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview.This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.Volume Editor: Ernest N. EmenyonuSeries Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.Reviews Editor: Obi NwakanmaAs well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.Foreword - Nawal El SaadawiEditorial Article: Is Egypt in Africa, Professor? - Ernest N. EmenyonuCoping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi - John C. HawleyThe Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - James M. Hodapp and Deema NasserNarratives of the Nubian Awakening : Reclaiming Egypt's African Identity - Christine GilmoreFrantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's The Committee - Temitope Abisoye NoahRomance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif - F. Fiona MoollaLiterature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's The Cheapest Nights - Eunice NgongkumTravel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's Butterfly Wings - Kelvin N. TohThe Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile - Rl)