Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction

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Rania M. Mahmoud

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence

Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction

Rania M. Mahmoud

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English

I.B. Tauris
25 January 2024

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Middle Eastern history; Gender studies: women

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence. Reading the novels against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves. Using a comparative lens, the study foregrounds the ways in which the authors confirm, critique, rewrite/revise, or reject developmental narratives. Female Voices and Egyptian Independence pays particular attention to women that range from the uneducated black slave, to the uneducated rural Siwan woman with artistic talent, to the wealthy cultured Coptic housewife, to the rising late nineteenth-century British female professional, and finally to the eclipsed twentieth-century Egyptian female national intellectual, all of whom play crucial roles in the journeys of the respective male protagonists, and by extension, the Egyptian national project.

By: Rania M. Mahmoud
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780755651047
ISBN 10: 0755651049
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Egypt the Grotesque: Breaking Leila’s Shackle in Lawrence Durrell’s Mountolive 3. Lessons in Modernity: Naguib Mahfouz’s Sugar Street and the Female National Intellectual 4. Alice in Wonderland: Egypt and the Benevolent Empire in The Guns of El Kebir 5. The Women of Mahmoud’s Dreams: Bahaa Taher’s Sunset Oasis and the National Mosaic 6. Conclusion

Rania M. Mahmoud is Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Arkansas, USA. Her writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures and Arab Studies Quarterly.

Reviews for Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence provides a fascinating account of how British and Egyptian authors looked to creatively imagine marginalized voices in the context of colonial Egypt. Rich in contextual and historical detail, the book engagingly contends with the experience and aftermath of revolutionary culture. * Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester, UK. *