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- Egyptian American women--Fiction
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- Man-woman relationships--Fiction
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- Language teachers--Fiction
- Photographers--Fiction
- Addicts--Fiction
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Title Statement | If an egyptian cannot speak english. Noor Naga. |
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Author | Naga, Noor |
Additional Contributors | El Gamal, Amin |
Publication | Toronto, Ontario: CELA,2022. |
Edition | Unabridged. |
Extent of Item | 1 DAISY audio disc (5hrs., 8min.) |
ISBN | 9781039574564 1039574564 |
Other Number | (OCoLC)1343955000 |
Performance Credits | Narrator: Amin El Gamal. |
Summary | Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a cafe? in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire?for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other?takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga's experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it? |
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By Topic | Egyptian American women--Fiction |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Egyptians--Fiction | |
Language teachers--Fiction | |
Photographers--Fiction | |
Addicts--Fiction | |
Ame?ricaines d'origine e?gyptienne--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
Relations entre hommes et femmes--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
E?gyptiens--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
Photographes--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
De?pendants--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
Addicts | |
Egyptian American women | |
Egyptians | |
Language teachers | |
Man-woman relationships | |
Photographers | |
By Location | Cairo (Egypt)--Fiction |
Egypt--Cairo | |
By Genre | Fiction |
Romance fiction | |
Romance fiction |