Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel: Egypt, 1892-2008
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ṣadda, Hudā aṣ- 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2012]
Series:Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
DE-29
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel -- Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood -- The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i -- Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory -- Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics -- Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim -- The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s -- The postcolonial nomadic novel -- Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din -- Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise
A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend. Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780748639267

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