Ernest N Emenyonu 
ALT 35: Focus on Egypt [PDF ebook] 
African Literature Today

As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.




Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview.


This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.

Volume Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu

Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

Tabla de materias

Foreword – Nawal El Saadawi

Editorial Article: ‘Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?’ – Ernest N. Emenyonu

Coping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi – John C. Hawley

The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee’s
Metro – James M. Hodapp

The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee’s
Metro – Deema Nasser

Narratives of the ‘Nubian Awakening’: Reclaiming Egypt’s African Identity – Christine Gilmore

Frantz Fanon’s Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim’s
The Committee – Temitope Abisoye Noah

Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif – F. Fiona Moolla

Literature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris’s
The Cheapest Nights – Eunice Ngongkum

Travel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy’s
Butterfly Wings – Kelvin N. Toh

The Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi’s
Two Women in One &
God Dies by the Nile – Razinat Talatu Mohammed

African Epics: A Comparative Study of
Sundiata &
Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah – Khalid Abouel-lail

Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Feminism, Dissidence, Patriarchy & Contemporary Egyptian Literature. Online Interview – Nawal El Saadawi

FEATURED ARTICLES – Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry – Mathias Iroro Orhero

Locating African and Diaspora Literature in the Global Context – Tomi Adeaga

The Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal – Nduka Otiono

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – ‘My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi)’ – poem – Mona Helmy

‘And the Stars Beckoned’ – short story – Nadia Wassef

‘Hijack in Hurghada’ – travelogue – Razinat Talatu Mohammed

‘Childless’ – short story – Kalapi Sen

‘The President’s Change Agent’ – short story – Akachi Ezeigbo

In Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 – Chiji Akoma

Reviews [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]

Sobre el autor

Razinat T. Mohammed is Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Abuja. The award-winning author of A Love Like a Woman’s and other Stories (2006), her publications also include Intra-gender Relations between Women: A Study of Nawal El-Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta’s Novel (2012).