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Selected AbstractsHow Zaynab Became the First Arabic NovelHISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2009Elliott Colla This paper is part of a History Compass conference cluster tracing the formation of national culture in Egypt. Guest edited by Walter Armbrust, this cluster of articles was originally part of a conference in Oxford on January 12,13, 2007, organized by Walter Armbrust, Ronald Nettler, and Lucie Ryzova, and funded by the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's), The Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Khalid bin ,Abdullah Al-Sa'ud Professorship (Professor Clive Holes), and The Centre for Political Ideologies. The cluster is made up of the following articles: Guest Editor: Walter Armbrust ,The Formation of National Culture in Egypt in the Interwar Period: Cultural Trajectories', Walter Armbrust, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00571.x,Repackaging the Egyptian Monarchy: Faruq in the Public Spotlight, 1936,1939', Matthew Ellis, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00572.x,How Zaynab Became the First Arabic Novel', Elliott Colla, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00573.x,Women in the Singing Business, Women in Songs', Frédéric Lagrange, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00574.x,Long Live Patriarchy: Love in the Time of ,Abd al-Wahhab', Walter Armbrust, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00575.x,Football as National Allegory: Al-Ahram and the Olympics in 1920s Egypt', Shaun Lopez, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00576.x,The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian', Yoav Di-Capua, History Compass 6 (2008), DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00577.x Despite a long-standing critical consensus that Muhammad Husayn Haykal's 1914 novel Zaynab was the first ,mature' Arabic novel, there is much evidence to the contrary. First, in terms of genre, Zaynab was not the first book calling itself by the term that later critics would call ,novel'; second, in terms of the bibliographic record, it was not a unique book on the cultural market in 1914; third, in terms of literary style, it was not at the time a particularly unique formal or thematic experiment in prose fiction; and finally, in terms of reception, it was not recognized as significant even by the small market segment and cultural field in which it initially appeared. This article revisits this critical debate and suggests that the canonization of Zaynab as the first Arabic novel cannot be explained by the work itself, but rather by subsequent developments , most especially, in the film adaptations of the novel and in the nationalization of university curricula during the Nasserist period. [source] Local Hybridity among Absorbing InstitutionsINTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, Issue 1 2007Rachel Sharaby ABSTRACT This paper discusses the encounter between the hegemony (the national absorbing institutions) and the "other" (the Yemenite immigrants) in the cooperative agricultural village of Ravid in Palestine before the founding of the State of Israel. The research indicates the ambivalence of the cultural field in which the absorbing and the absorbed meet, and the influence of this encounter on the absorbing themselves, in a local territory. The study demonstrates that the absorbing tried to "enculturate" the Yemenites and to force their cooperative agricultural village principles on them. However, the Yemenites, who wanted to maintain their traditional customs, resisted, and the institutions gradually compromised in Ravid. Thus, they deviated from their ideology. The Ravid community can, therefore, be viewed as a hybrid territory, in which a process of negotiation occurred, and where fluid cultural borders existed between the absorbing and the absorbed. Cet article traite de la rencontre entre les détenteurs de l'hégémonie (les institutionsd'assimilation nationales) et les«autres» (les immigrants yéménites) dans le village agricole coopératif de Ravid en Palestine avant la fondation de l'État d'Israël. Il montrel'ambivalence du champ culturel dans lequel assimilateurs et assimilés se rencontrent, ainsi que l'influence de cette rencontre sur les assimilateurs eux-męmes, sur leur propreterritoire. Cette étude démontre que les assimilateurs ont essayé d'imposer leur culture ainsi que les principes du village agricole coopératif aux Yéménites. Toutefois, les Yéménites, qui tenaientŕ conserver leurs coutumes traditionnelles, ont résistéet petit ŕ petit, les institutions de Ravid ont acceptéun compromis. Elles se sont ainsi écartées de leur idéologie. La communautéde Ravid peut donc ętre considérée comme un territoire hybride, sur lequel un processus de négociation a eu lieu, et oň il existait des frontiéres culturelles fluides entre assimilateurs et assimilés. Este estudio trata del encuentro entre la hegemonía (las entidades nacionales de absorción) y "los otros" (los inmigrantes yemenitas), en una cooperativa agrícola del poblado palestino de Ravid, con anterioridad a la institución del Estado de Israel. Esta labor de investigación pone de manifiesto la ambivalencia del ámbito cultural en que confluyen huéspedes y anfritiones, así como la incidencia de este encuentro sobre las entidades locales. El estudio evidencia que las entidades de acogida tratan de "culturizar" a los yemenitas y obligarles a adoptar los principios de la cooperativa agrícola rural. No obstante, los yemenitas quieren mantener sus costumbres y tradiciones y oponen resistencia, por lo que las entidades de Ravid llegan, con el tiempo, a un acuerdo. Así pues, se desvían de la propia ideología. Por consiguiente, se puede considerar a la comunidad de Ravid como un territorio híbrido, en que ha lugar un proceso de negociación y la fluidez en las fronteras culturales de anfitriones y huéspedes. [source] Structures of feeling and socio-cultural formations: the significance of literature and experience to Raymond Williams's sociology of cultureTHE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 2 2003Paul Filmer ABSTRACT Williams elaborates the concept of structures of feeling in different ways at important points in his writings. This gives it a particular methodological significance in relating the extraordinariness of imaginative literature to the ordinariness of cultural process. It is employed particularly to show the significance of literature for the articulation of alternatives to dominant world views, and thus to the politics of social change. Williams's different formulations of the concept are discussed in terms of their ways of relating reflexive experience to institutional structures and in relation to the genetic structuralism of Goldmann and Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural field. Three types of criticisms are considered, which have in common the contention that the concept is unclear. Operationalized in analysing literature and its symbols, it can contribute towards clarification of the complexity of the processes of reflexive communication of experience which are at the root of social order and change. [source] New transnational geographies of Islamism, capitalism and subjectivity: the veiling-fashion industry in TurkeyAREA, Issue 1 2009Banu Gökar, ksel The rise of the transnational veiling-fashion industry in Turkey has taken place within the context of neoliberal economic restructuring, the subjection of the veil to new regulations, and the resurgence of Islamic identities worldwide. Even after almost two decades since its first catwalk appearance, the idea of ,veiling-fashion' continues to be controversial, drawing criticism from secular and devout Muslim segments of society alike. Analysing veiling-fashion as it plays out across economic, political and cultural fields is to enter into a new understanding of the role of Islam in the global arena today. Veiling-fashion crystallises a series of issues about Islamic identity, the transnational linkages of both producers and consumers, and the shifting boundaries between Islamic ethics and the imperatives of neoliberal capitalism. In this paper, our overarching argument is that controversies and practices surrounding veiling-fashion show how Islamic actors are adapting and transforming neoliberal capitalism at the same time as they navigate a complex geopolitical terrain in which Islam , and the iconic Muslim, headscarf-wearing woman , has been cast as a threatening ,Other'. Thus the rise of veiling-fashion as a transnational phenomenon positions women and women's bodies at the centre of political debates and struggles surrounding what it means to be ,modern' and Muslim today. Based on interviews with producers, consumers and salesclerks, and our analysis of newspaper articles, catalogues and web sites, this article traces out how the transnational production, sale and consumption of veiling-fashion works to order spaces of geopolitics, geo-economics and subject formation. [source] | ||||||||||