ALT 35: Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today

by Ernest N Emenyonu (Editor), Akachi Ezeigbo (Contribution by), Chiji Ak?ma (Contribution by), Christine Gilmore (Contribution by), Deema Nasser (Contribution by)

Overview

As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.


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. Emenyonu
Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.
Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847011718
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date:	11/17/2017
Series:	African Literature Today , #35
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Chiji Akọma is Professor of English and Chair of Global Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Villanova University. His works include (co-ed with Nduka Otiono), Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (2021).

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Nduka Otiono is a writer, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He is the author and co-editor of eight books of creative writing and academic research, including His works include (co-ed with Chiji Akoma) Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (2021).

Razinat T. Mohammed is Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Abuja. The award-winning author of A Love Like a Woman's and other Stories (2006), her publications also include Intra-gender Relations between Women: A Study of Nawal El-Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta's Novel (2012).

Table of Contents

Foreword - Nawal El Saadawi
Editorial Article: "Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?" - Ernest N. Emenyonu
Coping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi - John C. Hawley
The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - James M. Hodapp
The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - Deema Nasser
Narratives of the "Nubian Awakening": Reclaiming Egypt's African Identity - Christine Gilmore
Frantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's The Committee - Temitope Abisoye Noah
Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif - F. Fiona Moolla
Literature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's The Cheapest Nights - Eunice Ngongkum
Travel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's Butterfly Wings - Kelvin N. Toh
The Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile - Razinat Talatu Mohammed
African Epics: A Comparative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah - Khalid Abouel-lail
Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Feminism, Dissidence, Patriarchy & Contemporary Egyptian Literature. Online Interview - Nawal El Saadawi
FEATURED ARTICLES - Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry - Mathias Iroro Orhero
Locating African and Diaspora Literature in the Global Context - Tomi Adeaga
The Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal - Nduka Otiono
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - "My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi)" - poem - Mona Helmy
"And the Stars Beckoned" - short story - Nadia Wassef
"Hijack in Hurghada" - travelogue - Razinat Talatu Mohammed
"Childless" - short story - Kalapi Sen
"The President's Change Agent" - short story - Akachi Ezeigbo
In Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 - Chiji Akoma
Reviews [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]