Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in
Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan
avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been
intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a
fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their
common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts,
Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice
embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary
imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in
absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the
intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary
writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling
and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary
excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal
milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part
and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role
being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance
towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.
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