Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
by
Wilson Chacko Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
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...