Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film
Dina Heshmat
Abstract
The 1919 anti-colonial revolution is a key moment in modern Egyptian history and a historical reference point in Egyptian culture through the century. Dina Heshmat argues that literature and film have played a central role in the making of its memory. She highlights the processes of remembering and forgetting that have contributed to shaping a dominant imaginary about 1919 in Egypt, coined by successive political and cultural elites. As she seeks to understand how and why so many voices have been relegated to the margins, she reinserts elements of the different representations into the domina ... More
Keywords: anti-colonial struggle, Egyptian film, gender, Egyptian nationalist movement, Modern Arabic Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, 2011 revolution
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474458351 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458351.001.0001 |
