{"product_id":"cultural-entanglement-in-the-pre-independence-arab-world-arts-thought-and-literature-paperback","title":"Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought and Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Gorman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSarah Irving\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book demonstrates how the interaction between Arabic and non-Arabic cultural and intellectual production as well as influences from imperial Europe and the Islamic East, have in various times and spaces inspired creative tensions which challenge binary views of East-West relations and the standard imperialist-colonial frameworks. In this sense the volume seeks to offer a critique of both established modernising conceptions of cultural development and nationalist, nativist frameworks based on the values of a specific political project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANTHONY GORMAN \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern\u003cbr\u003eStudies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author of Historians, State\u003cbr\u003eand Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt (2003) he has more recently\u003cbr\u003ecoedited and contributed to volumes on late nineteenth-century Egypt, \u003cbr\u003eMiddle Eastern diasporas and the press in the Middle East before 1950. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH IRVING\u003c\/b\u003e is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Edge Hill\u003cbr\u003eUniversity, UK, researching a social history of the 1927 earthquake in\u003cbr\u003ePalestine. She is also Visiting Research Fellow with the Crossroads\u003cbr\u003eproject on Middle Eastern Christians at Leiden University, The\u003cbr\u003eNetherlands, and editor of the journal Contemporary Levant.\u003cbr\u003eShe earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099491307655,"sku":"9780755635405","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d778f3649e217eef095eab7563394cee.webp?v=1732374547","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cultural-entanglement-in-the-pre-independence-arab-world-arts-thought-and-literature-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}