Literature, journalism and the avant-garde intersection in Egypt / Elisabeth Kendall.

Literary journalism in Egypt: its emergence and development -- Embryonic literary journalism -- Ṣanūʼ and al-Nadīm: two pioneers of satirical literary journalism -- Literary journalism under the British occupation -- The early twentieth century -- The golden age of literary journalism: the mid-twenties to the Second World War -- Literary journalism in egypt: increasing politicization -- From the Second World War to the 1952 Revolution -- In the wake of the 1952 Revolution -- Institutionalization: the 1960s -- The theoretical basis of the avant-garde in 1960s Egypt -- What is meant by avant-garde? Social transition and the avant-garde -- The journal: an effective medium for the avant-garde -- Why this avant-garde assertion in the late 1960s? -- Who were the avant-gardistes? -- What was 'the new sensibility'? -- The avant-garde and the future -- The sixties generation and its politics of literature -- Gallery 68: its position in the literary field -- Gallery 68: a political act? -- Gallery 68: in pursuit of truth and progress -- Gallery 68: clique or open society? -- Gallery 68: mission accomplished -- The sixties generation in search of a specific literary identity -- Western infiltration -- 'New versus old' -- Socialist realism and commitment -- Gallery 68 and poetry -- The establishment of a new literary paradigm: the 1970s and beyond -- 'Sixties' writers: shifting positions in the literary field? -- Gallery 68's successors: entrenchment of the paradigm -- The struggle for legitimacy: canonization begins.