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An Insider and Outsider View of Modern Egypt By Waguih Ghali And Amitav Ghosh

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 393 - 409, 22.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.746175

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to expose an insider view of Modern Egypt in the fifties and sixties by the Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) which is a semi-autobiographical novel written in English and an outsider view of Egypt written three decades after Ghali in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land (1992). Shedding a light to the struggles of the Francophone, British educated Egyptian Coptic figures with their conflicting allegiances to the Egyptian revolution that both opposed colonialism and practiced repressive domestic policies and their allegiances to the British culture that imposed colonialism, Beer in the Snooker Club seeks a cosmopolitan identity by rejecting the binaries of post-coloniality. On the other side, in In An Antique Land the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh presents two different narratives one of which is an anthropological one based on his visits made to two villages in the Nile Delta, while the other narrative is based on the process of writing his doctoral dissertation (in the years 1980-81 and 1988) with the aim to reconstruct the history of a 12-century Jewish merchant, Abraham Ben Yiju and his slaves by using some documents from the Cairo Genizah.

References

  • Athill, Diana. After A Funeral. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • Brandabur, A. Clare. Waguih Ghali and Amitav Ghosh: In Search of A Secular Arab Nationalist Identity in Egypt, the Waterford Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association, May 6-8, 2009.
  • Ghali, Waguih. Beer in the Snooker Club. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1964.
  • Ghosh, Amitav. In An Antique Land. London: Granta Publications, 1998.
  • Shohat, Ella. Taboo Memories: Diasporic Voices. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.

Waguih Ghali ve Amitav Ghosh’tan Modern Mısır’a İçeriden ve Dışarıdan Bir Bakış

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 393 - 409, 22.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.746175

Abstract

  Bu çalışmanın amacı, İngilizce yazılmış yarı otobiyografik bir roman olan Mısırlı yazar Waguih Ghali’nin Snooker Club’ta Bira (1964) adlı eserinde Modern Mısır’a ellili ve atmışlı yıllarda içeriden bir bakış ve Ghali’den 30 yıl sonra yazılmış Amitav Ghosh’un Antik Bir Ülke’de (1992) adlı kitabında da Mısır’a dışarıdan bir bakış sunduğunu göstermektir. Frankofon, İngiliz, Mısırlı Kıpti karakterlerin, hem sömürgeciliğe karşı çıkan Mısır devrimine bağlılıklarıyla hem de baskıcı iç politikalar uygulayan ve sömürgeciliği dayatan İngiliz kültürüne olan bağlılıklarıyla çatışan mücadelelerine ışık tutan, Snooker Club’da Bira adlı eser, sömürgecilik sonrası ikilileri reddederek kozmopolit bir kimlik arayışı içerisindedir. Öte yandan, Hintli yazar Amitav Ghosh Antik Bir Ülke’de adlı eserinde, biri Nil Deltası’ndaki iki köye yapılan ziyaretlerine dayanan ve antropolojik olan, diğeri ise yazarın Kahire Genizah’ın bazı belgelerini kullanarak 12. yüzyıldan kalma bir Yahudi tüccar olan Abraham Ben Yiju ve kölelerinin tarihini yeniden inşa etmek amacıyla, doktora tezini (1980-81 ve 1988 yıllarında) yazma sürecine dayanan iki farklı anlatı sunmaktadır.


Anahtar Kelimeler: Modern Mısır, Waguih Ghali, Amitav Ghosh, Kıpti, İngilizler, içeriden görünüm, dışarıdan görünüm, Geniza

References

  • Athill, Diana. After A Funeral. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • Brandabur, A. Clare. Waguih Ghali and Amitav Ghosh: In Search of A Secular Arab Nationalist Identity in Egypt, the Waterford Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association, May 6-8, 2009.
  • Ghali, Waguih. Beer in the Snooker Club. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1964.
  • Ghosh, Amitav. In An Antique Land. London: Granta Publications, 1998.
  • Shohat, Ella. Taboo Memories: Diasporic Voices. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Studies of Asian Society
Journal Section Articles
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Neslihan Albay 0000-0003-1933-0125

Publication Date June 22, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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Chicago Albay, Neslihan. “An Insider and Outsider View of Modern Egypt By Waguih Ghali And Amitav Ghosh”. Tarih Ve Gelecek Dergisi 6, no. 2 (June 2020): 393-409. https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.746175.

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