ALT 35: Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today (African Literature Today, 35)

As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. Volume Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma Frontcover Contents Notes on Contributors EDITORIAL ARTICLE. ‘Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?’ ARTICLES Coping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel Aziz, Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine El Rashidi The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee’s مترو (Metro) Narratives of the ‘Nubian Awakening’: Reclaiming Egypt’s African Identity Frantz Fanon’s Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif Literature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris’s The Cheapest Nights Travel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy’s Butterfly Wings The Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi’s Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile African Epics: A Compaative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Online interview FEATURED ARTICLES Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry Locating African & Diasporic Literatures in the Global Context The Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal LITERARY SUPPLEMENT My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi) – Poem And the Stars Beckoned – Short Story Hijack in Hurghada – A Travelogue Childless – Short Story The President’s Change Agent TRIBUTE. In Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941–2016 REVIEWS Mohammad Rabie, Otared. Translated from Arabic By Robin Moger Yasser Abdel Hafez, The Book of Safety. Translated from Arabic to English by Robin Moger Sanya Osha, On A Sad Weather-Beaten Couch Adam Mayer, Naija Marxism: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Okey Ndibe, Never Look An American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American Reviews of Nigerian Poetry Obari Gomba, For Every Homeland Musa Idris Okpanachi, Music of the Dead As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. Volume Ernest N. Emenyonu Series Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Reviews Obi Nwakanma "Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement"--Boydell & Brewer Publishers' website, March 2, 2018.