Creative reckonings : the politics of art and culture in contemporary Egypt / Jessica Winegar.
- Winegar, Jessica
- Date:
- 2006
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Physical description
xxi, 377 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm.
Contents
Cultural politics and genealogies of the modern in the postcolony -- Amina Mansur : the map of love -- Becoming an Egyptian artist : "freethinking" in the mainstream -- Muhammad Mukhtar, Al-Ginubi : season of migration to the north -- Cultural authenticity, artistic personhood, and frames of evaluation -- Muhammad ʻAbla : Nile sparrows -- Freedom of talk : cultural policy and the transforming state -- Mustafa al-Razzaz : Book of revelations -- Cultivating civilized publics -- Gazibiyya Sirri : the search : personal papers -- Collecting a nation, displaying (a) culture -- ʻAbd al-Hadi al-Gazzar : I say to you -- Art and culture between empire and sovereignty -- Raghib ʻAyad : return of the spirit.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-369) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows’ Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.