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03759aam a22005297i 4500 001 98636F44E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 170331s2017 gw b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2017377968 020 $a 3447107561 020 $a 9783447107563 035 $a (OCoLC)975488171 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d OHX $d YDX $d LGG $d HLS $d ERASA $d MIA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NUI $d SILO 041 0 $a ara $a ara 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a f-ua--- 050 00 $a PJ7517 $b .R36 2017 082 04 $a 300 100 1 $a Ramsay, Gail, $e author. 245 10 $a Blogs & literature & activism : $b popular Egyptian blogs and literature in touch / $c Gail Ramsay. 246 3 $a Blogs and literature and activism 246 30 $a Popular Egyptian blogs and literature in touch 264 1 $a Wiesbaden : $b Harrassowitz Verlag, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 142 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a MiÌzaÌn : Studien zur Literatur in der islamischen Welt, $x 0938-9024 ; $v Band 26 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142). 520 8 $a Social criticism has been a pervasive element in modern Arabic literature since its beginnings. This book is concerned with social criticism in blog narratives against the background of a long tradition of criticizing society through literary expression in the Egyptian national framework. It is also about ways in which the Arabic literary heritage, classical and contemporary, is put to work and recycled in Egyptian Arabic-language blogs. Readers will become aware that a number of the same societal and political problems that have been and still are treated in literature are brought up in Egyptian blogs. While social criticism will be shown to be a common thread in literary expression and blogging in Egypt, a central question is how bloggers use their cultural and literary heritage to advance their goals of changing social and political reality. The bloggers give voice to core problems with which an early blogging generation was and continues to be concerned. Some were discontented with the inability of the government to provide them with the democratic liberties they requested. Others emphasized the necessity to solve the urgent problems of poor governance, corruption and poverty. The book concludes that if the root problems are not addressed and the old order not removed, real change cannot take place. The question is what picture literature and social media including blogs will present to us henceforth: one of a society taking steps towards real change, or one reflecting the status quo with circumscribed individual liberties and lack of social reform. 546 $a In English, includes some text in Arabic. 650 0 $a Arabic literature $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Blogs $x Social aspects $z Egypt. 650 0 $a Arabic literature $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Language and the Internet $z Egypt. 650 0 $a Internet and activism $z Egypt. 650 0 $a Communication and technology $z Egypt. 650 7 $a Arabic literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812478 650 7 $a Arabic literature $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812508 650 7 $a Communication and technology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00870044 650 7 $a Internet and activism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01894149 650 7 $a Language and the Internet. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01741516 651 7 $a Egypt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208755 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a MiÌzaÌn (Wiesbaden, Germany) ; $v Bd. 26. $x 0938-9024 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212025435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98636F44E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search