Egypt 1919 : the revolution in literature and film /
Dina Heshmat.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Egypt 1919 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Poetics of Disillusion -- 2 The Fear of the Rabble -- 3 1919 and the Trope of the Modern Nation -- 4 The Revolution on the Screen -- 5 The Politics of Rehabilitation -- 6 Rewriting History in the 1990s -- 7 Rewriting History in the Wake of 2011 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
The first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial revolution in Egypt.