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'Radwan's important study, Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon, provides the reader with cogent evidence of the abundant creativity and political significance that Egyptian poets writing in their colloquial dialect project to their society and its audience (and not least following the events of January, 2011). Her study is a welcome and sophisticated insertion of critically-based literature scholarship, both theoretical and applied, into the context of that form of poetic creativity to which the vast majority of speakers of the Arabic language in Egypt regularly respond with the greatest enthusiasm and immediacy. The publication of this study will be a significant addition to the relatively exiguous library of works in English devoted to colloquial poetry from any Arabic-speaking region.' Roger Allen, emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
'This astute study of the emergence of modernist poetry in the Egyptian vernacular treats an important but neglected area of Arabic expressive culture. Considering issues of language use and language politics, and intersections of political culture and literary expression, Radwan offers sensitive readings of three leading vernacular poets who paved the way for today's explosion of colloquial poetry in Egypt and elsewhere.' Marilyn Booth, Iraq Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, The University of Edinburgh
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Book Title: Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
Book Subtitle: New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya
Authors: Noha M. Radwan
Series Title: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015679
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Noha M. Radwan 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34132-6Published: 29 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34413-0Published: 29 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01567-9Published: 14 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-705X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 240
Topics: Cultural Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial/World Literature