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Closed Horizons: Trauma, Hopelessness, and New Political Modes in Egyptian Speculative Fiction 2013-2021
Closed Horizons: Trauma, Hopelessness, and New Political Modes in Egyptian Speculative Fiction 2013-2021
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152133
- ISBN
- 9798342710886
- DDC
- 892
- 서명/저자
- Closed Horizons: Trauma, Hopelessness, and New Political Modes in Egyptian Speculative Fiction 2013-2021
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 289 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Halim, Hala.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation examines a small corpus of recently published Egyptian speculative fiction that engages both explicitly and implicitly with the country's contemporary history, especially the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its political aftermath. This sociopolitical context has had an outsized effect on the sudden (re)emergence of political speculative fiction, a little-used genre in Egyptian letters, inspiring a relative explosion of new works. I argue that this corpus not only represents a new type of Egyptian novel, but a new Egyptian committed literature as well, one that substantially differs from that of the past in its position vis-a-vis established ideological and political positions. I posit that these works share several themes, including trauma and bodily injury; the nexus between spatial and temporal closure and hope and hopelessness; and the writing and rewriting of history. I examine the ways that this corpus uses the theme of trauma to mourn, memorialize, and process real collective and personal grief. I also analyze how these novels utilize spatial and temporal closure to create dark, hopeless narratives that reflect their respective real-world contexts, but that also allow for the possibility of hope and change outside of their pages. And I delve into these works' engagement and concern with the history of modern Egypt and the ways they work to contest official narratives of the country's recent history. It is my hope that this dissertation will prove useful to a wide range of scholars working on Egypt, including scholars of Egyptian literature and others working in the fields of political science, history, sociology, and anthropology. I also hope that it will be of use to scholars of modern Arabic literature more broadly, to those specializing in speculative fiction and postcolonial studies, and to diverse scholars of the Global South.
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Middle Eastern studies
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 키워드
- Arabic
- 키워드
- Egypt
- 키워드
- Science fiction
- 기타저자
- New York University Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17163087▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
