Dramas of nationhood

American University in Cairo Press

2005

319 p.

9774248899

Contents: Ethnography of a nation ; Interpreting culture(s) after television : on method ; Rural «ignorance» and the virtues of education ; Development realism, «real melodrama» and the problem of feminism ; Modern subjects? Egyptian melodrama and postcolonial difference ; The ambivalence of authenticity : national culture in a global world ; Managing religion in the name of national community ; Consumption and the eroding hegemony of developmentalism ; Conclusion : star magic and the forms of national affinity

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