Laugh like an Egyptian humour in the contemporary Egyptian novel
Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awāld al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Language play and creativity ;
v. 5. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Note on transliteration
- Bibliographic reference for the novels
- Introduction
- 1 A laughable tradition
- 2 Masters of humour
- 3 Reversed epics. Nu'mān, the village antihero
- 4 Ibn Shalabī, a (pre-)modern trickster
- 5 Laughing together at the hash den
- 6 Laughing together at migration
- 7 A comparative look
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Websites and videos
- Index.