The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture - Couverture souple

Sibley, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501788221 ISBN 13 : 9781501788222

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The Poetics of Incivility explores impolite modes of expression – satire, crude humor, and rudeness – as a critical lens for both aesthetic innovation and sociopolitical critique. In the Arab world – from Cairo's Tahrir Square and the thoroughfares of Beirut to war-torn Gaza – political demands have been framed by satirical cartoons and graffiti or in subversive poetry and song. Emily Sibley shows that these forms of resistance are not new to Arab culture but return to mid-nineteenth-century debates over literary propriety.

In case studies concerning women's education in 1850s' Beirut, the satirical press in colonial Egypt, colloquial theater in the era of decolonization, street art and graphic novels during and after the 2011 Egyptian protests, Sibley follows the threads of an expressive culture that announces and celebrates its own impropriety. Concluding with analyses of Gaza poetry on the internet as a space where the stakes of incivility are acutely visible, The Poetics of Incivility offers a timely consideration of incivility as an aesthetic resource for authors and artists engaging with some of the most controversial issues of their times – and ours.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Sibley is Senior Research Associate at Whitman College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501788221
• ISBN 13: 9781501788222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible