Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, culture, and empire: 21 (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

by Deborah Starr (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $162.61

  Examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. Taking a theoretical, literary and historical approach, this book argues that the notion of the cosmopolitan is inseparable from, and indebted to, its foundation in empire.