Egyptian realism

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Egyptian realism is a literary movement in Egypt characterized by its focus on everyday social realities, class struggles, and the depiction of contemporary Egyptian life in a direct, unromanticized style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary movement
realist literature
aimsTo highlight injustices in Egyptian society
represent social reality accurately
concernedWith bureaucracy in Egypt
corruption
gender relations in Egyptian society
social mobility
country Egypt
developedInContextOf modernization of Egypt
postcolonial Egyptian society
rise of the Egyptian middle class
focusesOn class struggles
contemporary Egyptian life
everyday social realities
genre realism
influencedBy 19th-century realist novels
European realism NERFINISHED
influences Egyptian short story
contemporary Egyptian novel
language Arabic
literaryForm drama
novel
short story
movementIn Arabic literature NERFINISHED
Egyptian literature NERFINISHED
narrativeMode psychological depth of characters
third-person narration
opposes romanticized depictions of Egyptian society
period 20th century
regionalVariantOf Arab realism
relatedTo critical realism
social realism NERFINISHED
stylisticFeature detailed description of daily life
direct style
focus on ordinary people
social critique
unromanticized depiction of life
thematicFocus family relations
political change in Egypt
poverty
social inequality
urban life in Egypt
typicalProtagonists lower-class characters
petty bourgeois characters
working-class characters
uses colloquial dialogue
detailed social settings

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Said Mahran literaryMovementContext Egyptian realism