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Book SynopsisAs 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
Table of ContentsForeword - Nawal El Saadawi Editorial Article: "Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?" - Ernest N. Emenyonu Coping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi - John C. Hawley The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - James M. Hodapp The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - Deema Nasser Narratives of the "Nubian Awakening": Reclaiming Egypt's African Identity - Christine Gilmore Frantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's The Committee - Temitope Abisoye Noah Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif - F. Fiona Moolla Literature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's The Cheapest Nights - Eunice Ngongkum Travel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's Butterfly Wings - Kelvin N. Toh The Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile - Razinat Talatu Mohammed African Epics: A Comparative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah - Khalid Abouel-lail Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Feminism, Dissidence, Patriarchy & Contemporary Egyptian Literature. Online Interview - Nawal El Saadawi FEATURED ARTICLES - Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry - Mathias Iroro Orhero Locating African and Diaspora Literature in the Global Context - Tomi Adeaga The Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal - Nduka Otiono LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - "My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi)" - poem - Mona Helmy "And the Stars Beckoned" - short story - Nadia Wassef "Hijack in Hurghada" - travelogue - Razinat Talatu Mohammed "Childless" - short story - Kalapi Sen "The President's Change Agent" - short story - Akachi Ezeigbo In Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 - Chiji Akoma Reviews [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]
