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Chapter I: The Dialogic Nature of Authoring the Self and the OtherOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
January 2011 witnessed an unprecedented critical moment in the Egyptian history. Protests were mobilized in millions in all corners of the country. People did not fear death and stood still calling out “People want the regime to fall” for eighteen successive days. What have changed the Egyptians? What power of determination were they endowed with to endure for their cause? Why could not they fear the power of the regime anymore? How did the regime conceive of these determinate souls and how did it respond to their roaring requests? Most of these previously raised questions could have been preceded by the statement ‘for the first time’. For all these ‘first times’ this study is in your hands now. It attempts to bring out these engaged voices that Mubarak was seriously trying to address in his three speeches. How did these voices establish a relation with the speeches as texts as well as with Mubarak himself? How did these voices exercise power over the spoken speeches and over Mubarak himself? And how did these influential voices made textual interpretations of Mubarak’s three speeches and vice-verse how Mubarak himself represented these roaring voices in his speeches?
The primary sources used for analysis are: Mubarak’s three speeches addressed to the Egyptians during the eighteen days of the 2011 revolution. The study examines Mubarak’s three speeches and the historical and political state of Egypt and Egyptians in the light of another historically changing moment when Moses and his people revolted against the enslavement and the tyranny of the Pharaoh and confronted him with their demand for freedom. Antony Burgess’ “Moses: A Narrative” is a poetic recount of this historical moment. Another selected literary text is Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo: My City, Our Revolution. The contribution of the present study is that it treats all speaking parties; namely Mubarak, the protestors, Moses, his people and the Pharaoh as social and political entities that were separated in time but happened to pursue a similar endeavour and a somehow similar political context. These dialogues and responses are contextualized as every speech is an utterance that is loaded with social representations as well as fluid self-conceptualization he forges for himself. This is examined in each of the three speeches to analyze its response and suitability to the political and social context. Moses’ utterances and confrontation with the Pharaoh are also examined within the political and social contexts they responded to and emerged from. All speakers scan the contexts in which they speak and the parties they speak to and in so doing speakers forge new identities for themselves and provide social and political representations to other involved parties. Thus the study attempts to analyze and see the features of both the newly emerging self-concepts of the speakers and their representations of the others. The study also attempts to establish a dialogue between these historically time separate parties; namely Mubarak, the protestors, Moses and the Pharaoh. There are three main theoretical frameworks the study has employed as enabling tools for the purpose of analysis and application; they are respectively Bakhtin’s concept of ’Dialogism’ for Chapter I, Moscovici’s Social Representation Theory for Chapter II and John Turner’s Self Categorization Theory for Chapter III.