Asian Punches - A Transcultural Affair
Asian Punches - A Transcultural Affair
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亚洲拳——跨文化事件
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-28607-0_9
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2013
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Booth M
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Booth M
This plaintive line appears in a colloquial Arabic poem in the Cairo-based journalAl-Arghūl(the reed-pipe) soon after its founding in September 1894. Entitled ‘A Load of Poetry: The Reed-Pipe’s Zajal on Fashion’, the three-page poem attacks Egypt’sfin de siècleyouth as a ‘good-for-nothing generation’ (gīl khāyib). It is a generation that drinks alcohol, sucks up Egypt’s resources, gets pregnant before marriage, fears no father or mother, never suckled on the milk of good upbringing, and rides around Cairo, especially to the Rawda pleasure-garden area, in European-style phaetons, sporting tarbushes andzikittas (jackets) and no beards. It is a generation ofmōda, fashion; the label, a European loanword, verbally enacts the invasive presence that penetrates this satirical poem.