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Wilson Chacko Jacob - Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 - 9780822346623 - V9780822346623
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Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940

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Description for Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 Hardback. Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bourgeoisie (the effendiyya) struggled to escape from the long shadow cast by colonial depictions of the East as degenerate, feminine, and temporally behind an active and virile Europe. He argues that during British colonial rule (1882–1936), attempts to create a distinctively modern and Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze led to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346623
SKU
V9780822346623
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About Wilson Chacko Jacob
Wilson Chacko Jacob is an Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal.

Reviews for Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest ... Read more

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