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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1337
dc.title	Il Cairo: luoghi semi-ufficiali e personaggi eccentrici nei romanzi di Shalabī e Abū Julayyil
dc.contributor.author	Dozio Cristina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2018/1/il-cairo-luoghi-semi-ufficiali-e-personaggi-eccent/
dc.description.abstract	Cairo is a constantly expanding and changing megalopolis, whose residents negotiate the binary oppositions of centre/periphery, development/poverty, and local/global. This paper investigates the literary representation of the Egyptian capital in four novels by Shalabī and Abū Julayyil published between 1981 and 2008. Firstly, it overviews recent scholarship about the literary geography of Cairo. Then, it examines the narrative techniques employed by Shalabī and Abū Julayyil to portray semi-official spaces, such as historical palaces now in decline, hash dens, shantytowns, and buildings on the verge of collapse. I argue that these spaces interact with the rest of the city, while developing a highly local culture, embodied by eccentric humorous characters.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 54 \| June 2018
dc.issued	2018-06-25
dc.dateAccepted	2018-03-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-01-16
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Egyptian novel
dc.subject	Egyptian novel
dc.subject	Hash den
dc.subject	Hash den
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Microcosm
dc.subject	Microcosm
dc.subject	Old Cairo
dc.subject	Old Cairo
dc.subject	Shantytowns
dc.subject	Shantytowns
dc.subject	Travelogue
dc.subject	Travelogue

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Il Cairo: luoghi semi-ufficiali e personaggi eccentrici nei romanzi di Shalabī e Abū Julayyil

Cristina Dozio Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia

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Cairo is a constantly expanding and changing megalopolis, whose residents negotiate the binary oppositions of centre/periphery, development/poverty, and local/global. This paper investigates the literary representation of the Egyptian capital in four novels by Shalabī and Abū Julayyil published between 1981 and 2008. Firstly, it overviews recent scholarship about the literary geography of Cairo. Then, it examines the narrative techniques employed by Shalabī and Abū Julayyil to portray semi-official spaces, such as historical palaces now in decline, hash dens, shantytowns, and buildings on the verge of collapse. I argue that these spaces interact with the rest of the city, while developing a highly local culture, embodied by eccentric humorous characters.

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June 25, 2018

Accepted

March 23, 2018

Submitted

Jan. 16, 2018

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Keywords: Egyptian novel • Old Cairo • Microcosm • Humour • Shantytowns • Travelogue • Hash den

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