Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dramaturgies of Conspiracy: Bakathir, Idris and the July Regime
- 2 Naguib Surur: The Poetics and Politics of Niyāka
- 3 Sonallah Ibrahim’s al-Lajna: Between Critical Theory and Conspiracy Theory
- 4 Gamal al-Ghitani’s Ḥikāyāt al-Khabīʾa: The Fitna of Sexual Deviance
- 5 Paranoia in the Second Degree: Three Recent Novels
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dramaturgies of Conspiracy: Bakathir, Idris and the July Regime
- 2 Naguib Surur: The Poetics and Politics of Niyāka
- 3 Sonallah Ibrahim’s al-Lajna: Between Critical Theory and Conspiracy Theory
- 4 Gamal al-Ghitani’s Ḥikāyāt al-Khabīʾa: The Fitna of Sexual Deviance
- 5 Paranoia in the Second Degree: Three Recent Novels
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Selections from ‘The Mother-Cunt-ets of Naguib Surur’
(Kuss-ummiyyāt Najīb Surūr)
The text below reproduces the complete Kuss-ummiyyāt proper, in addition to relevant sections of the ‘Sequels’ (Mutatābiʿāt), following the version published online by Shuhdī Surūr (S1). Endnotes belong to the author, and have been reproduced with their original annotation (for example, hāmish 2, malḥūẓa 1). The original orthography, including inconsistencies, has also been preserved; however, a few edits have been made to correct what are obvious typographical errors in the original. For translation and discussion of select verses, see Chapter 2. Full citations for all versions (S1, S2, S3) are provided in Chapter 2, endnotes 32 and 33.
The following edits have been made. Line numbers have been added to facilitate reading. Stanza division has been revised in a few instances where the original has conjoined verses of separate quatrains. A footnote has been inserted to provide the variants to lines 6 and 7 that occur in the audio recordings (S2, S3). Finally, the author's prose introduction and concluding note have been removed.
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- Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature , pp. 174 - 194Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018