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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9780823252282
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: European literature; European literature; Cosmopolitanism in literature.;

This book argues that the narrative of Alexandria's cosmopolitanism was in tune with colonial modernity. The Alexandria Archive is a comparative study of representations of cosmopolitanism in texts by C.P. Cavafy, E.M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, and Bernard de Zogheb from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.

Hala Halim is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University.