The Book Egyptian Earth Literature Essay
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Haqqi is less totalizing in his delineation of rural Egyptians. He is more aware of class relations that complicate the notion of a romanticized, monolithic, and ultimately helpless peasantry in revolt against modernity, variously allegorized. Still, it is suspected that al-Sharqawi would not have thought of his characters as romanticized.