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Atlantic decolonial critical approach to representations of Cairo’s cityscape

ABSTRACT In this study, selected works by two Egyptian novelists are explored from a critical decolonial approach. Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī’s (1945–2015) and Yāsir Aḥmad’s (1980) novels are renditions of architectural transformations in Cairo’s cityscape representing complex cultural mutations. Issues of cultural ex/changes and agency will be dealt with by drawing on critical approaches propounded by Aníbal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, and Walter Mignolo, among others, to challenge the exclusivity of European post/modernity. It explores “trans-modern,” aspects in selected fictional representations of Cairo, a marginocentric city located in the Mediterranean rim, often considered as an “exterior” location.