Free Download David DiMeo, "Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9774167619 | PDF | pages: 249 | 4.9 mb
Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mid-twentieth century. By the 1960s, however, leading Egyptian writers had retreated into disillusionment, producing agonized works that challenged the key assumptions of socially engaged writing. Rather than a rejection of the idea, however, these works offered reinterpretation of committed writing that helped set the stage for activist writers of the present.