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dc.identifier	ECF_article_5504
dc.title	Pharaohs and Playwrights between Fiction and Reality: Controversies in the Egyptian Cultural Field
dc.contributor.author	Potenza Daniela
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2021/1/pharaohs-and-playwrights-between-fiction-and-reali/
dc.description.abstract	Going through the controversies involving pharaohs as fictive characters, this article focuses on the life and works of four Egyptian playwrights (Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ, ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākaṯīr, Alfred Faraǧ and Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm). Deeply engaged in the politics of their time, playwrights’ experiences with ‘pharaohs’ are studied here with the aim of highlighting the different perceptions of the character of the pharaoh in Egypt and in the West, retracing the implications of the common pairing of pharaohs with presidents, as well as showing how literature can affect politics and how the collocation of pharaohs in the Egyptian cultural field remains problematic, but is changing.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 57 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-06-30
dc.dateAccepted	2021-04-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-01-22
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/2385-3042/2021/01/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Alfred Faraǧ
dc.subject	Alfred Faraǧ
dc.subject	ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākaṯīr
dc.subject	ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākaṯīr
dc.subject	Egyptian playwrights
dc.subject	Egyptian playwrights
dc.subject	Pharaohs
dc.subject	Pharaohs
dc.subject	Pharaonism
dc.subject	Pharaonism
dc.subject	Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
dc.subject	Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
dc.subject	Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ
dc.subject	Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ

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Pharaohs and Playwrights between Fiction and Reality: Controversies in the Egyptian Cultural Field

Daniela Potenza Università degli Studi di Catania; Università di Napoli «L’Orientale», Italia

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Going through the controversies involving pharaohs as fictive characters, this article focuses on the life and works of four Egyptian playwrights (Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ, ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākaṯīr, Alfred Faraǧ and Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm). Deeply engaged in the politics of their time, playwrights’ experiences with ‘pharaohs’ are studied here with the aim of highlighting the different perceptions of the character of the pharaoh in Egypt and in the West, retracing the implications of the common pairing of pharaohs with presidents, as well as showing how literature can affect politics and how the collocation of pharaohs in the Egyptian cultural field remains problematic, but is changing.

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June 30, 2021

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April 8, 2021

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Jan. 22, 2021

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Keywords: Alfred Faraǧ • Egyptian playwrights • Pharaohs • Pharaonism • ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākaṯīr • Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm • Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ

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