Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria After the Revolution

by Joska Samuli Schielke, Mukhtar Saad Shehata, Samuli Schielke

Shared Margins 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.

Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110726777
• ISBN13: 9783110726770
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"