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Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s

Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s

Dimeo, David

Hardcover

African HistoryLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 9774167619
ISBN13: 9789774167614
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Sep 7 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather than a rejection of the idea, however, these works offered reinterpretation of committed writing that helped set the stage for activist writers of the present.

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