{"product_id":"9783110726770","title":"Shared Margins : An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution (ZMO-Studien)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe refereed series \u003cem\u003eZMO-Studien\u003c\/em\u003e publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the \u003cem\u003eLeibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eShared Margins\u003c\/em\u003e tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Structured in two parts, \u003cem\u003eShared Margins\u003c\/em\u003e gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuli Schielke\u003c\/strong\u003e, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany; \u003cstrong\u003eMukhtar Saad Shehata\u003c\/strong\u003e, Alexandria, Egypt. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter; Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48256472973547,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":199.58,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783110726770-1.jpg?v=1781719009","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783110726770","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}