Colonial modernity and urban space : Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo
This article explores the spatial dimension of colonial modernity in Naguib Mahfouz’s 1947 novel Midaq Alley. I begin by discussing the way in which modernity reconfigures urban space in Cairo so that the radical disjunctures and discontinuities it initiates become encoded within the topography of t...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145002 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |